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> It's a site that calls itself "The Pirate Bay." So? I belong to a political party called "the Pirate Party", doesn't mean I'm breaking the law.
by cabalamat 16y ago
> It's a site that calls itself "The Pirate Bay."
So? I belong to a political party called "the Pirate Party", doesn't mean I'm breaking the law.
- nailer 16y agoIf you exist solely for the purposes of facilitating piracy, you probably are, depending on the country. Go ask a lawyer.
- cabalamat 16y agoWe exist solely for the purpose of changing UK government policy to something sensible. This means inter alia that some actions now called "piracy" would become legal.
- nailer 16y ago* Equating copyright reform with supporting piracy will harm any attempt at copyright reform. * I didn't give you permission to steal my work to advance any objective. I think you've created a manifesto to justify stealing things, because you like stealing things.
- cabalamat 16y agoHow many times do you have to be told that copyright infringement is not theft, for it to sink in?
- nailer 16y agoa) Have you proven stealing my work isn't theft yet? b) Regardless whether you personally define stealing my work as being theft or not, does that make it less wrong? Because I strongly suspect that's what you're implying. You still haven't responded to how equating copyright reform with piracy helps copyright reform in any way.