Back in April after the four involved in the Pirate Bay scuffle were declared guilty of helping to break copyright law, the judge who gave the verdict, Thomas Norstrom, was found to probably be biased due to his involvement in several pro-copyright groups. After a long, cold, hard bout of deliberation, the Swedish Court of Appeals has actually found Norstrom unbiased, something rather surprising. This means that the charges against the guilty still stand.
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Member since:2006-01-14
Ringham, dont forget you are guilty of piracy yourself. Most OS's that people use are based on concepts invented by AT&T at Bell Labs. The gui, the mouse, ethernet, all were invented at research parc and most of them were not paid for when they were implemented by Apple and Microsoft. So think twice before you judge other people as wrong for what they may have done.
As for the law, I don't think they should be guilty. They are not infringing copyright themselves. Moreover, the ISP's, the computer OEM's, the hardware makers and the software creators are all equally guilty of the same thing. I couldn't infringe copyrights without a computer or internet connection. And why not goi after the people actually pirating. When I torrent Fedora 11 I am not breaking the law and neither is the host of the torrent. Through no further action on their part though, I could register a dvd torrent and all of the sudden the torrent host is now guilty? How is that fair?
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2006-03-23
How the hell am I being dishonest? I'm opposed to people stealing content which they didn't pay for. That seems pretty damn ethical to me.