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Judge delivers guilty verdict in Pirate Bay trial
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article published on 17 April, 2009
A Stockholm court has found the four founders of The Pirate Bay BitTorrent site guilty of making 33 specific files accessible for illegal sharing through the site. The four were found guilty of assisting distribution of illegal content and were sentenced to a year in jail. They also must pay a fine of $3.6 million to 17 different music and media companies including Sony BMG, Universal, EMI, ... [ read the full article ]
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EnigmaCM
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17. April 2009 @ 08:29 |
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Oh knows, TPB guilty.What are we to do?....lol
Seriously, this is messed up for TPB but, unfortunately, it was just a matter of time. Besides, if the site were to go down permanently there will just be another ready to replace it. Now, IMO, WTF is up with the over 3 million fine? How can they even come up with a figure like that? Were they charged by the item downloaded as a whole or per individual downloads? You see the astronomical numbers we are talking about, with so many TPB users with downloads and uploads, this number would be rather high and could have been more/less money depending how it was calculated. Sad Day for TPB
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varnull
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17. April 2009 @ 08:34 |
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EnigmaCM
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17. April 2009 @ 08:52 |
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jeff_2
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17. April 2009 @ 09:10 |
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The site and trackers are still alive though :S
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Zoner
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17. April 2009 @ 09:37 |
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I wonder how much they paid the judge?
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chinpark9
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17. April 2009 @ 09:50 |
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I ask this in all humility. Are all judges, everywhere, beyond reproach? Is there not, at least one, who will be open to the wiles of the RIAA and the other reptiles who inhabit the media circus?
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17. April 2009 @ 10:13 |
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Can you say rigged trial?
They will win on re trail since the trail was a joke...
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luckybleu
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17. April 2009 @ 10:31 |
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limewire, mini nova next, yes more will pop up , but I think new founders will be alot more hesitant now that the founders of the pirate bay have to do a bullet in the slammer.Maybe its now time to get behind some legal sites that have spent the money and time to offer consumers free legal music ;see spotify and qtrax two sites worthy alternatives to stealing ,where copyright holders are properly paid for their works.
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bc12
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17. April 2009 @ 10:35 |
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I see the piratebay is still up can you download from it or is it unsafe.
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AfterDawn Addict
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17. April 2009 @ 10:37 |
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Originally posted by luckybleu:
limewire, mini nova next, yes more will pop up , but I think new founders will be alot more hesitant now that the founders of the pirate bay have to do a bullet in the slammer.Maybe its now time to get behind some legal sites that have spent the money and time to offer consumers free legal music ;see spotify and qtrax two sites worthy alternatives to stealing ,where copyright holders are properly paid for their works.
THey should focus on running non profit organizations with the mission statement of spreading information and fighting against "distribution" as the end all phrase and mindset in copy right and focus it on profit and illicit profit as "distribution" blocks half the world from gaining access to information on a regular basis.
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SgtDavis
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17. April 2009 @ 10:40 |
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Hardly a win for the RIAA and other entertainment/media companies. Its too bad for TPB & crew. But even if they erased the site and its founders from existence its just drops in the bucket. And why they hell haven't they gone after Google for not blocking search results for illegal torrents? I can find a hell of a lot more stuff on there than on TPB.
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ivymike
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17. April 2009 @ 11:06 |
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They're not sending that cute blonde lady in (TPB press video above)to prison, are they?
She's too cute to "do time" LOL.
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louispq
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17. April 2009 @ 11:34 |
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We could almost say that this is the new mafia of the 21st century. The media companies are obviously corrupting our respective governments and they force our governments to then protect them
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17. April 2009 @ 11:40 |
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Originally posted by louispq:
We could almost say that this is the new mafia of the 21st century. The media companies are obviously corrupting our respective governments and they force our governments to then protect them
Sine government is made of noblemen that are either partners with or owners off....
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17. April 2009 @ 11:49 |
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Until the main variable of torrents, the free aspect, I don't think there will ever be a true deterrent.
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IguanaC64
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17. April 2009 @ 11:53 |
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Keep appealing until you get a judge with a differing interpretation.
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The trial began on February 16 in Stockholm, and by the second day the original charge of "assisting copyright infringement" was dropped and replaced with a lesser charge of "assisting making available copyrighted content", after the prosecutors failed to convince the Judge that illegally copied files had been distributed by the site itself.
This judge was was wrong in his interpretation. If his interpretation stands then every Internet search engine is guilty of copyright infringement.
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machacker
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17. April 2009 @ 12:10 |
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TPB guilty what about Google it brings up thousands of torrents to download copyrighted material.
Trial is a total JOKE
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ak472009
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17. April 2009 @ 12:13 |
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gonna get a whole bunch of stuff tpb , before they go down
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JAYMES71
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17. April 2009 @ 13:14 |
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They base their ridiculous fines on what they claim would have been sales for the movie/record company had the consumers not downloaded them illegally. Yeah right. If a car thief hadn't been able to steal the car, he would have went to the nearest car lot right away!
At least that's how they tried to pursue a case against me this past two years, but I had a damn good lawyer, so eff 'em all. Still, the whole ordeal cost me well over $20,000, which is far more than their losses, I guarantee you.
The RIAA, MPAA, COPS and all the judges in these instances are complete morons. Hell, most everyone laughed at my charges! Trust me folks: the aforementioned gang of THUGS are merely bought and paid for.
IT IS A GREATER CRIME TO STARVE A CHILD THAN TO COPY AND SELL A MOVIE. Again, eff the police.
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17. April 2009 @ 13:16 |
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Originally posted by SgtDavis:
Hardly a win for the RIAA and other entertainment/media companies. Its too bad for TPB & crew. But even if they erased the site and its founders from existence its just drops in the bucket. And why they hell haven't they gone after Google for not blocking search results for illegal torrents? I can find a hell of a lot more stuff on there than on TPB.
Most likely so. But I always appreciated TPB for the comments that people left... I enjoyed it's community.
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tefarko
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17. April 2009 @ 13:54 |
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the TPB guys should do something safer than maintaning a tracker, like invading other people's countries to steal oil, torture innocent people in secret prisons or steal billions in Wall Street...
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17. April 2009 @ 14:16 |
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The blonde is hot, a phone number please... If they haven't shutdown the site it maybe that they want to go after people using the site so I'd think twice before using TPB.
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LordV
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17. April 2009 @ 14:17 |
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To everyone that said that, if TPB goes down another will come up:
Yes they will, but it will be one of those lame ass shitty trackers like sumetorrent and all them and will never be as fully established with respectable torrents at TPB. For a public tracker, TPB is hands down the best for general torrents.
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eLeCTR0n
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17. April 2009 @ 15:47 |
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Really, it's a bit LOL. It used to be only movies, now even verdicts are out before the official release.
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badkrma
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17. April 2009 @ 16:35 |
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Originally posted by tefarko:
the TPB guys should do something safer than maintaning a tracker, like invading other people's countries to steal oil, torture innocent people in secret prisons or steal billions in Wall Street...
yep, I agree, do something that people don't make money on and here comes hell...
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