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BitTorrent seed farmer found guilty, faces 10 years in jail
- fallentimes 18y agoSomeone should have plead guilty... It will be interesting to see what happens to the Pirate Bay guys.
- astine 18y agoThey're in Sweden (I believe,) different laws. The RIAA and MPAA don't have as much clout over there because they don't represent any part of Sweden's GDP or cultural influence.
- rms 18y agoThe Pirate bay will never be defeated.
- fallentimes 18y agoI hope you're right, but there's a lot of people with a lot of power going after them.
- Zev 18y agoWhat makes them infallible? They're human. Maybe one of them gets sick and has to stop working. Or maybe they get bored. Or Sweden/EU's laws change. Maybe the companies that make up the RIAA or MPAA will change policies and offer a better alternative. Perhaps a better alternative will come around? Who knows what the future holds. "never" is a strong word to use. Especially concerning technology.
- rms 18y agoThe hydra is infallible. If the Pirate Bay were to collapse (may they reign forever), a dozen new sites would spring up to replace it.
- pavelludiq 18y agoAmerican people scare me, they are crazy.
- snow_white 18y agoThey've been promised 14 sluts after death by Bush.
- Zev 18y agoPlease tell me you don't judge an entire country with a population of > 300 million based on the actions of a few that get media attention? Cause that thought scares me more then anything the MPAA can try and do.
- pavelludiq 18y agothis is a little of topic, but its not just that. I know a lot of stuff about American history, i also know people that have lived in different parts of the country. I could write an entire essay about stuff that i don't find normal in American culture, but you can do that with almost any country. There are stuff in America thats just weird.(i mean weird not from my point of view, i mean weird in any point of view, i think the "most powerful nation in the world" thing has gone to your heads, power corrupts.)
- Hexstream 18y ago"McCausland also ended up serving five months in prison before going on probation, part of which involved an odd request from his probation officer to start using Windows (instead of Linux) so that monitoring software could be installed on the machine." This is dehumanizing treatment!
- astine 18y agoWorse than the prison term, that's for sure! Well, no, but I'll bet that software eats up half his CPU and bandwidth. I'd like to see him hold down a job with that kind of restriction.
- helveticaman 18y agoI hope he doesn't get raped. On that note, how high is the risk of getting raped in prison? I've seen the data on http://www.spr.org/ http://www.spr.org/. Are there findings that refute or confirm that data?