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| Pirate Bay - World's Largest BitTorrent Tracker Shutdown! |
| 2006-06-03 |
| Police have closed down The Pirate Bay, a Sweden-based file sharing site and one of the most popular websites of its kind in the world. Three people were taken in for questioning after police raids in Sweden on Wednesday. The trio, ages 22, 24 and 28, are suspected of violating property rights legislation, police spokesman Ulf Göranzon said. Servers connected to the site have been impounded and the site was down on Wednesday afternoon, although the operators of The Pirate Bay have set up a temporary website to provide updates on the situation. The three men taken in by police were still being questioned on Wednesday afternoon. They all have links to The Pirate Bay. Prosecutors will decide whether to detain the men after they have been questioned. "The suspects are not people who download files, but are people who have relations to the website," Ulf Göranzon told The Local. He would not reveal anything more about the roles that the men played. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #10 Moose you are so right. That is why the original copyright law had a 20 year limit. So the knowledge didn't dissappear down the memory hole as is case now. Information and art do no one any good when locked in a vault and 20 years time is plenty of time to profit from the copyrighted material. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-06-03 18:04 |
| #9 I've long considered that copyright law ought to be like mining law. Anybody can claim a stake, but you have to show "improvements", or sell product to a tune of $500 a year, or you lose your claim. Right now, there are huge libraries of copyrighted material that are just sat on. They refuse to market them, but won't let anyone else market them. If they don't offer them up for sale, and SELL some, retail, each and every year, then they lose the right of monopoly. Imagine how huge the market would be if hundreds of thousands of songs, thousands of movies, etc., were suddenly in the public domain. They still get copyright protection for hot, new material, as long as they want to continue to market it. That's where they get most of their money, anyway. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-06-03 17:58 |
| #8 Darth You still have PureTNA and EmPornium - All is not lost ... YET! |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-06-03 09:45 |
| #7 SPoD, Hallujah Brother. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-06-03 09:13 |
| #6 Just a slower boat to hell but the destination is the same. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-06-03 01:47 |
| #5 SPOD - if we get rid of the lawyers, that'll include 99% of the politicians ... oh, wait ... thats a GOOD thing! Couldn't agree with you more about indefinite extensions of copyrights and DRM. And the Repubs are just as bad as the Dems. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2006-06-03 01:42 |
| #4 Well seeing as when the police came they seized all the servers at the site, many that were in no way related to Piratebay's Bittorent trackers at all, but also including the server of a political party, the stuff is about to hit the fan in Sweden. Their are lawyers sharpening thier knives right now. Copyright is a good thing and Corperations ought to protect theirs. It is not the job of the US government or the Whitehouse to protect a private parties copyright. It is a civil matter and has been untill a Republican Congress decided it had to protect a bunch of liberal hollweird elites and liberal big label record companies with criminal laws concerning copyrights. Should the government of the US be wasting good will on this crap for the good of a bunch of Hollywood and record company elites who want the Republicans thrown out and put on trial for war crimes? Does the Congress understand a damn thing at all? Coyprights that last forever now? WTF? 20 years was plenty long. Not for Hollywood and the RIAA it wasn't. Senator Dinsey delivered a nice long extention that in essence makes copyright last forever. Congress bend over backwards to do this stuff but can't find time to address the citizens valid and rightfull concern about an open and unsecured border. Hollywood and the Big record lables are trying to force us to get entertaimnet according to their stupid, broken and corrupt old model that dates to tyehr 1900's. We live in a different time than those old rules functioned well under. They can't seem to understand they need to reshape the way thety deliver their product and re adjust their pricing model accordingly. Buy they haven't and will not. It's easier to buy politicians including Republican politicians who share nothing in common with the politics of the people in these businesses. These few people are forcing DRM crap and laws that are cutting our competiveness in the digital world in the process because they will not adapt to a new model of digital distribution and lower prices for their mostly crappy product. Making it easier to buy than steal makes much more sense. But Congress has no sense. More stupidity. Bittorent trackers contain no Copyright material other than the software that runs them. The Law is an ass, and the Whitehouse is an ass if they are involved in any way. Congress is an ass for getting involved in protecting Hollywierd and the RIAA. Infernal Lawyers. We would be better off if we strangled 9 out of 10 of them. They are a bigger threat to our "freedom and Demoracy" than OBL is. That is a fact. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-06-03 01:33 |
| #3 There goes my porn source.... |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-06-03 00:44 |
| #2 I wonder if the hackers will for once put pressure on Sweden by interfering with major corporations in the country. If enough corporations complain, this cooperation with the US would go right out the window. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-06-03 00:28 |
| #1 Yar! We be downloadin' Mateys! |
| Posted by: Mike 2006-06-03 00:12 |