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Pirate Bay four sentenced to a year in prison
- wmeredith 18y agoMark Mulligan, an analyst at Forrester Research, said the ruling was “good p.r.” for the music and movie industries: “There’s a lot of value out of it, even though its value is not going to be a meaningful reduction in file sharing,” he said. “They have to be seen to be doing something, in the same way that customs fights drug trafficking — as a deterrent.” Because everyone knows how successful the war on drugs has been?
- biohacker42 18y agoOr the war on napster. That took care of piracy, yep sure did.
- krav 18y agoAgreed. Never ever listen to analysts. They're paid to hype.
- andreyf 18y agoAnd the title, of course, is dead false. They weren't convicted of violating copyrights, but for "assisting in making copyright content available".
- bdfh42 18y agoCan we have a few more posts on this topic? We are falling way behind Reddit.
- radu_floricica 18y agoreddit is blocked in my router... and the available time has increased to amazing levels.
- csomar 18y agowe can if we vote less!!
- snprbob86 18y agoI only see two posts about this on the front page. One is from torrentfreak, with obvious bias. The other (this one) is NYTimes. Both say that they were found guilty of violated copyright, sentenced to a year in prison and fined millions. While I agree that we probably only need one story about this, I don't think two is really worth complaining about. This is truly a landmark case about a topic which is definitely of critical interest to many hackers here.
- m_eiman 18y agoThey were actually found guilty of "assisting in making copyright content available".
- quoderat 18y agoWIth the amount of money they've spent on the ill-fated "war on piracy," they could've invented Bittorrent, or at least ran their own for-pay tracker that made the Pirate Bay operation look lame. But no.
- chris11 18y agoThe legal hassles with running a legal tracker would be horrendous. I think every major contract would have to be renegotiated. How would you divide up royalties for song downloads? And would torrent distribution even be covered in current contract?
- radu_floricica 18y agoAnd yet, on youtube it seems to work. I don't know exactly how widespread it is or what are the sums involved, but there are quite a few ad revenue sharing schemes running. Might be because youtube (and google) are already too big to sue.
- weavejester 18y agoRead through the prosecution's arguments in this case. It's amazing just how little the lawyers and witnesses called by the IFPI seemed to know, even after what must have been months, if not years of preparation. The heads of the recording industry seem to be ignorant of technology to such a degree that they don't understand the whole nature of content distribution is changing. Running their own for-pay tracker would be as alien to them as an assembly line would be to neolithic man.