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The overreach that companies with big pockets like Sony Pictures Entertainment have when it comes to enforcing their ownership rights over content they own scar
by DigitalSea 12y ago
The overreach that companies with big pockets like Sony Pictures Entertainment have when it comes to enforcing their ownership rights over content they own scares me. It's 2014 and a company like Sony can get a swat and forensics team to take down a website hosted in a completely different country. Just trying to get your local police department to find a stolen car or help you recover a stolen phone can be struggle enough. But heaven forbid, people are sharing magnet links on The Pirate Bay, we must send in the big guns.
I know that Wired is speculating that this is because of the Sony hack, but there have been numerous cases where companies have had incredible global overreach like in the instance of Megaupload.
Seems Sweden has become a US lapdog, this isn't the first time Sweden has bowed down to copyright infringement enforcement requests from the USA and it won't be the last. They've been trying to take down The Pirate Bay for years now, it will never die. It goes down, it comes back within a day or two, why won't they just give up already?
- mintplant 12y agoIt's worth noting that the Sony Corporation itself is based in Japan, while the subsidiary that was hacked, Sony Pictures Entertainment, is American. Also, there's no proof that they're behind this, only speculation from Wired.
- DigitalSea 12y agoI have updated my comment reflecting the appropriate name of the subsidiary of Sony and fact that Wired are speculating. Thank you for commenting and pointing that out.
- funkyy 12y agoSweden with their fear of Russia, jets incidents? Yeah, they will eventually give back favour. Favour for favour they say.
- chrissnell 12y agoHow is it that they've been able to maintain a .se domain? You'd think that Swedish authorities could get that seized.