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The Pirate Bay Verdict Won't Affect File Sharing
04.17.09 Dan Costa
The trial and conviction of four crypto-anarchists doesn't amount to a hill of beans in the mad world of copyright protection.
Source HERE by PCMag for Dan Costa
The site routinely posts its responses to Cease and Desist letters from various copyright holders; they make for pretty entertaining reading— that is, if you're not a copyright owner. When Electronics Arts wrote a letter concerning unauthorized copies of The Sims 2 on the site, The Pirate Bay responded like this:
"Hello and thank you for contacting us. We have shut down the website in question.After complaining about unreleased Billy Corgan tunes available for download on The Pirate Bay, Warner Bros. Records got this:
Oh wait, just kidding. We haven't, since the site in question is fully legal. Unlike certain other countries, such as the one you're in, we have sane copyright laws here. But we also have polar bears roaming the streets and attacking people :-(. "
"We are well aware of the fact that The Pirate Bay falls outside the scope of the DMCA—after all, the DMCA is a US-specific legislation, and TPB is hosted in the land of vikings, reindeers, Aurora Borealis and cute blonde girls."There's much, much more, and it's fun to read as long as you are not offended by adolescent snarkiness, profanity, and suggestions for the creative use of police batons. Suffice it to say, The Pirate Bay's founders did not cease or desist.
This technology isn't limited to The
Pirate Bay. There are dozens of sites that do the same thing—go to Mininova.org and ISOHunt.com and you can find the same files, albeit without the parrots and eye patches. My favorite BitTorrent client, Vuze, offers searches directly from within the client. No amount of legal action can shut ALL of these sites down.Next Week: Somalian Pirates :: What's up with all that thar'?
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ARGHH! Matey
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