Apr 17 2009Pirate Bay Founders Sentenced To A Year

*wink*

Weak.

So they're sentencing the founders because they can't arrest all the users? How ridiculous. That's like shutting down internet providers because people pirate online.

copy right laws suck

Viva la Pirates !!!!

As much as it sucks to admit, pirating is theft...
(prepares to be flamed)

Piracy IS theft... but TPB shouldn't be held responsible for providing infrastructure... this was so politically driven

And this group is claiming that are setting up a VPN without logs so that people can do ANYTHING anonymously and without fear of getting caught (ipredator).

Yea right.

Think of all those retards who believed that and signed up for the beta with their email addresses. Pretty sure that was just a Harvest by The Man, if you know what I mean.

You winking at me Heather?

These guys are quite lucky they got of with that term. I thought it would have been higher. And 3.6m in damages. They should be laughing at that. These guys have made soo much more than that in the last 5 years.

Well shucks, I guess facilitating the theft of millions of dollars of peoples copywriten material raised a few eyebrows.

and 5 others appear in its place... its napster all over again

I find it odd that they didn't try to force down the site. Basically they're saying "sit in this room for a year and pay us some money, but feel free to keep doing what caused all this in the first place".

OK, look at it this way: Say someone breaks into your house and steals your home entertainment system (tv, stereo, subs, speakers, gaming consols, everything). They then go to the "trading post/fence" and sell your stuff to someone else. Does that mean you don't want the people hosting the "sell my stolen shit" party to have to go to jail too? C'mon people...

if they are convicted under these terms you can also sue google for the same thing. they merely facilitate the information ABOUT the torrents, not the torrents themselves. bunch of fascists

"...by financing, programing and administering the site, the four men promoted the infringement of property rights..."

I hope I don't end up going to jail for showing my housemates how to use torrents and then backing it up by saying how awesome it is to be able to get stuff for free and sealing the deal with a high five. I was actively encouraging them to commit a crime. A delicious crime which meant none of us wasted money on, say, the horrible abortion that was the latest Guns N Roses album.

no company has gone bankrupt because of pirates, they still have idiots like you to buy it.

#8 JIm - Their server are located out of sweden so they can't be raided by cops. And even if they did they would just find a list of people and not what they have done.

#10 - The founders have made very little money on the site and has said they will not pay any of the money. Also the 3.6 Million is the highest ever the Swedish court have ordered private people to pay.

#13 - The pirate bay servers are located in countries where it is legal to link to torrents.

They didn't steal (pirate) anything, they just helped... a little hehe

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.

This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max ran out of cannonballs and ended up filling the cannons with cutlery and spare parts.

the intent is there. Just because you find a loophole doesnt make it right.

When I speed, I am taking the risk of getting a speeding ticket. I know the risk. I know I'm breaking the law. They didn't build this site out of innocence. They took the risks and now have to pay for it.

3.6 mil my A$$. F.uck the RIAA and all record companys and the sell out musicians who whine and cry.
Sounds like the sweedish court had a little influence from the big dogs in the USA...read time warner, universal, etc.

F.uck those unreasonable fines
" the RIAA & the IFPI
" the federal reserve
" Obama for appointing members of the riaa to the DOJ
FTW

@14 get a clue

Like John Stewart says, now that there are so many Somali pirates around, internet pirates have to go back to their old name as thieves.

Dang...I was actually going to check this website out this weekend....

I'll wait for piratesbay2

21 - Care to elaborate? Or are you simply here to spout FTW one liner propoganda?

http://www.citmedialaw.org/threats/doe-v-fortuny#description

Jason Fortuny lost his suit for the Craigslist Experiment as well. His was a default judgment though, as he was unable to travel for the hearing

If everyone that reads this buys a pirate bay t-shirt we can help the legal fund

Go buy 1

After you buy a shirt we can take turns sucking each others penises off too. lol

@ 24 strong views on my side, I have been steadily watching this case for a while. These days, I do not condsider entertainment media a hot item... honestly not one that can be "stolen". I think the industry is a bunch of greedy bastards and deserve to die because they are not based on the "music" or the "movies". They are fake and are money driven like most every corp. out there. Not that they shouldn't make money (bands, etc) but not be controlled by a label who takes more than their share. and yeah, I like to spout

remember: piracy isn't theft.

making copies isn't stealing.

nothing of anyone's is missing, which is the foundation of 'theft'.

@23

slowpoke.jpg

This greatly saddens me. :(

The following is taken from https://www.uktradeinvest.gov.uk/ukti/fileDownload/Mono3GamesReport_LR.pdf?cid=411884 and breaks down who gets what from a video game sale in a retail store.

Consumer spend (net of tax) $49.99
Retailer $10.99
Platform provider $10.00
Physical distributor $2.00
Manufacturing $2.00
Marketing $4.00
Publisher $15.60
Developer $5.40

I'm certainly not saying that you should pirate anything- if you like it, pay for it. Still, look at that break down. There are some corporate pirates I'd like to see get their day in court.

Besides, this isn't about pirating. It's about providing the ability to share information in an unregulated manner. Will pirates take advantage of that freedom? Sure. But is that freedom something we should so eagerly give up?

This is complete and utter bullshit.

Don't you think the companies that sell the digital media have a responsibility to protect their property? They could use any of the copy protection methods out there but don't bother. Its like if I had a pile of money in my house, and left the door open, and a bunch of people took a bus to my house and took it.

Should I go after the bus company?

Hi. I'm Jack Black.

You probably know me from my movies and music. And that's why you'll understand why what I'm about to talk about is very important to me. Piracy. Look, super-mega-rock n roll gods and superstars are just regular dudes like you guys. We punch the clock, we put on the pants, and we blow people's minds. It's how we make a living. And then these pirates come and steal all our Internets. I don't know how they do it. But these pirates can bust into our entertainer's homes, make us walk the plank, steal our rockin' tunes, and leave us broke. And you know what that means. No cash - no inspiration. And no inspiration - no rocket -sauce. No rocket sauce - no kick ass rock n roll. Or movies. Is that what you want Mr. Long-John Silver? What's your parrot gunna listen to when you go toe to toe against the English armada? JAZZ? I don't think so. Don't be a deush. Stop piracy.

Does this mean no more pirate booty jokes? :(

They deserved 20 years.

Daisy: Not just your average run of the mill idiot. He's one that proves it over and over again, daily. Multiple times, and with gusto. Deserves an award for his supreme idiocy and dedication to proving that fact, over and over again, much like my dong as it goes in and out of his wife's mouth while he's at work.

Piracy is illegal and blah blah, fine. But this ruling is so dumb, I don't know if I should laugh or cry. I'm going to sue the Smith & Wesson company for all the armed robberies that are facilitated by their products.

inspiration doesnt come from money. you taught us that jack. you did. in your ten d vids.

I hate paying for an album that's a piece of shit.

I hate driving to the store and finding out what I'm looking for is already sold out, or worse - out of print.

I hate paying all these goddamn middlemen, wasting untold resources, when the technology exists to go straight from artist to me.

Hire these guys instead of putting them in jail.

DO WHAT YOU WANT 'CAUSE A PIRATE IS FREE, YOU ARE A PIRATE

I'm just curious: who does that money go to? Is anything corrected by the fines? I mean, paying that would be one hell of a deterrent for would-be Pirate-Bayers, but hell.

The F.S.M. will be displeased. If you fück with his pirates, he'll fück you with his noodley appendage. R'amen.

I'm going to steal at least one piece of software every week for the next year as retribution. Everyone should join me!

@14

"go to jail too?" see, the thing is, in your clever little senario, only the people hosting the "sell party" are going the jail, not the people that actually broke into your house and stole your stuff.

It's not over yet... they will appeal and it might take another year or two for this to be really settled.

The fact that they have a "guilty" verdict now is mostly being used by the recording industry for their media circus. They haven't won yet.

As #46 says, it will be appealed and go on for years, most likely to the supreme court to get a precedent.

Most media reported todays ruling as without meaning since, no matter which, the losing side would appeal.

Btw, wasn't that a copyright infringement by GW, to copy the Pirate Bay ship?

Just so you know some things about swedish jails. The food they get costs more than ten times what the schoolchildrens and ritirementhomes food costs (not counted in different portionsizes). They have plenty of activitys, they dont have the same problem with the bitch-butch lovesaga in the showers (because in sweden we understand that if you poke your magic wand in the pit of oblivion your gay), they have their own cell, they can have their tvs, consoles and computers in the cell, they get channels with daytime movies and midnight porn (this was at least the case 10 years ago but i dont really know how it is now), they can get a education, they can work for more money then they get in the army and so on.

I'd plead the fif!

BULLSHIT!!!!

Swedish Law that states you cant upload on the web was set in 1 April (what a joke). Anyhow, Piratebay is/was the no.1 downloadcenter for the swedish community. Myself haven't used it cause of lacking things I like (mostly food - you can download that). Anyhow, Piratebay started altso to be more involved in politics, having the theme "No surveillance, Phonetapping etc." within Sweden. They haven't got much vote some years ago but this will boost up the swedish votes next time and maybe give Pirates 1 mandate, at least.

It's stupid. It's like suing flickr.com because someone puts up a copyrighted picture, or youtube, or myspace, or facebook, and so on. You could just as well sue google for not blocking sites that might contain copyrighted material (like youtube, or myspace, or flickr, etc.). But then again, Sweden is a stupid country.

It's the lowest level of the court system anyway so no-one expects them to be able to think for themselves. Although everyone is a bit surprised by the harsh sentence. But they aren't so stupid in the higher levels of the system, so that will most likely change. And there is still a good chance they will go free.

And regarding the moral aspects of copying:
Piracy is illegal because the law says it is, but laws can be changed. (Illegal isn't the same as immoral.)

Piracy (e.g. making copies) isn't theft because no-one looses anything.

Yeah, the creators need to make money somehow but who says it has to be this way. We all know it's not the creators that get rich. Most authors and music-artist are all struggling to make a living from their work in the current system (regardless of piracy). Piracy actually gives new artists a chance to reach out to an enormous audience, that also means more people are going to pay for their stuff, so it might actually be better for them with piracy.

The world would benefit enormously if we could switch to another business model for this kind of work. (But the record industry wouldn't so they are going to do what they can to prevent that.)

The quicker the politicians adapt and don't try to stop progress, the less the creators will suffer anyway.

@53

O RLY?

what can i do for you

the man controls the t.v. and movie industry, the real people in control of the world benefits from this industry it's official. I like movies and t.v. But this makes me want to not finance the man and his controlee. c'mon teacher leave them kids alone. eat it! no i dont do illegal drugs... except what bayer has created.

this is like TVLINKs all over again