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I side with TPB because I consider them a great example of civil disobedience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act http://en.w

I side with TPB because I consider them a great example of civil disobedience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Exten... "The Act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever endpoint is earlier."

paulgb 18y ago
The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension is a U.S. law. Sweden was actually life+70 before the Sonny Bono act. I'm not a big fan of life+70 myself, but I don't see what the Pirate Bay case has to do with copyright terms. The infringements claimed are on works like Walk the Line and Harry Potter, which are far from the end of their copyright terms, Bono act or not. Rosa Parks was a great example of civil disobedience. To me this just looks like people who don't want to have to pay to watch Prison Break.
- cousin_it 18y ago
  No, it's civil disobedience. The Pirate Bay wasn't started to facilitate watching Prison Break to couch potatoes, or to make money, or even to fix such "deficiencies" of copyright as life+70. It was founded by an activist group explicitly against the whole institution of copyright. That's why they go to court where couch potatoes would have surrendered already.