Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Apr 2009 12:26 UTC, submitted by zegenie
The verdict in the Pirate Bay trial surprised many people, seeing as how many errors the entertainment industry's lawyers had made, and how little understanding they seemed to have of how BitTorrent works. The height of the sentence also surprised many; for aiding in sharing just 33 copyrighted items, the four founders were sentenced to one year in jail, and a massive fine of 3.6 million USD. Well, as it turns out, we now know why we were all relatively surprised: the judge in the case, Thomas Norstrom, is member of the same pro-copyright groups as many of the people representing the entertainment industry in the case.
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You go into a store and steal a DVD. You now have a movie you have not paid for, and the maker has not received payment.
that is not true at all the maker already has the money only the store losses any money on that transaction. Would not be to suprised if that's why the penalty often is that much smaller for doing it this way. no extremly big companies are lobbing for harser punishments for stealing since well they are not losing any money att all.
You go to download a movie, you now have a movie you have not paid for, and the maker has not received payment.
that is true except that no one is actuly missing an item that they had before it happend, you have lost an opertunity to make money. or you could possible have gained one. there are still people that downloads movies/music and then buys it if they really like it, but sadly in most cases this is not true becus there are way more leechers.