The trial against the Pirate Bay has started in Sweden

find out about it here http://trial.thepiratebay.org/

For more info http://newteevee.com/2009/02/15/the-definitive-primer-to-the-pirate-bay-trial/

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[brage49]

long live the pirate bay!

[cyborgtroy]

You can use Gmail to send people child porn. Let's sue Google for that. 8P

[8jwong14]

@Henkera Oh right. The pirates of Somalia. I'll tone it down a bit. My friend used to pirate content (not the seas) especially with games.

[8jwong14]

@Henkera Somalia? What gave you that idea?

[Henkera]

@8jwong14 There is no particular reason that personal gain wouldnt be able to have the moral higher ground over commercial gain.

[Henkera]

@8jwong14 If the product is something youd want to see in your ideal society then theres nothing wrong to pay or get paid for it. sounds like you friend is from somalia though.

[8jwong14]

@Henkera I'm only against pirating of content that should be paid for. I don't how advertising is manipulative in some cases especially with games like Portal 2 or Crysis 2.

The good pirates are a minority. My friend used to be a pirate of all stuff he wanted. Now, I was able to persuade him to actually get the game. He recently, purchased Portal 2 after trying the demo.

[8jwong14]

@Henkera In some cases, it is reasonable to try out a game if a demo is available. But this is not often the case. For example, Crysis 2 was recently released. It has a demo. Yet it has 4000 seeds. Those people did not download the game to try it but rather to play it in its entirety. There are some good pirates and some bad pirates. There are black witches and white witches. Sadly, the evil overshadows the good. For movies, their are trailers. Most big software companies have trials.

[Henkera]

@8jwong14 Im saying theres nothing wrong to find out if a product is worth buying by downloading it, especially when advertising is manipulative.

[8jwong14]

@petervandriell From what I know from my Global History teacher, most people in Sweden pay high taxes but get welfare and many other benefits. The society is more egalitarian especially since most of the population is in the middle class and *0% are in worker unions. Supporting piracy is almost supporting Socialism. Then again, many people don't care about such wide and broad matters. Many people, sadly, just pirate for their own sake of personal gain/

[8jwong14]

@petervandriell A world where everything was shared is a perfect world. It would be socialist. If everythign in the world was shared and everyone benefited, things like piracy wouldn't be bad. A perfect would could be one with socialism and democracy. People will share all things. In Sweden, high taxes are good because they go into welfare and other good stuff. I think that Sweden has lenient copyright laws largely due them having many socialist elements. Greed causes many problems.

[8jwong14]

@petervandriell When companies send them requests to take down their material, TPB has a children in their legal team insulting those companies. They don't say they are not supporters of pirating and are instead a platform for information and idea distribution. No. Their name says they support pirating almost to the point of exclusivity. As you said, torrents are not illegal. Trackers aren't illegal. But openly supporting and faiclitying it is the main problem.