How the Fairlight pirate group from Malmö, Sweden, conquered the world
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How the Fairlight pirate group from Malmö, Sweden, conquered the world
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Re: How the Fairlight pirate group from Malmö, Sweden, conquered the world
#2"Any idiot could rip a movie and upload it to Pirate Bay, and they're even making money from it. That's nothing but commercial murder of those who actually make those items,” says Pontus Berg.
”We could be accused of having acted in a legal grey zone. But for national finances, I believe it was a giant plus. The availability of demos and cracked games was very important in the beginning for the sales of home computers,” says Pontus Berg.
Early-onset dementia?
Re: How the Fairlight pirate group from Malmö, Sweden, conquered the world
#3"Any idiot could rip a movie and upload it to Pirate Bay, and they're even making money from it. That's nothing but commercial murder of those who actually make those items,” says Pontus Berg. ”We could be accused of having acted in a legal grey zone. But for national finances, I believe it was a giant plus. The availability of demos and cracked games was very important in the beginning for the sales of home computer…
I don't really think so. I would say the movie industry is fairly well established, and don't need the same kind of availability to start selling DVD players in homes... By many accounts the PC gaming industry nearly died many times in it's infancy.
However his main comparison seems to be between "cracking games takes work and is therefore alright" vs. "ripping movies doesnt", which I don't necessarily agree with.
Re: How the Fairlight pirate group from Malmö, Sweden, conquered the world
#4"Any idiot could rip a movie and upload it to Pirate Bay, and they're even making money from it. That's nothing but commercial murder of those who actually make those items,” says Pontus Berg. ”We could be accused of having acted in a legal grey zone. But for national finances, I believe it was a giant plus. The availability of demos and cracked games was very important in the beginning for the sales of home computer…
Well, it's a bit self-righteous, but it shows the difference between the old scene where cracking was a technical challenge reserved for the able, and the new sort of mass-market scene we have today.
I for one always cringe at the sight of technically illiterate friends who keep up with bad sitcoms through uTorrent without knowing how the file system (even the high-level abstraction of it) works.
When we debate IP law, hackers (rightly) accuse the establishment of not knowing the technological reality of the laws they push. Judges and media corporations legislate based on poorly construed metaphors of theft and ownership. But the majority of today's file sharers have no idea what they are doing---they live in the same world as the establishment. It doesn't hurt to remember this.
Re: How the Fairlight pirate group from Malmö, Sweden, conquered the world
#5I don't buy it. If cracking games was purely about the technical challenge, then there would be no need to distribute the crack when you're done.
Also, what is the "conquered the world" thing about? Also, the layout of this page is totally insane.
Re: How the Fairlight pirate group from Malmö, Sweden, conquered the world
#6"Any idiot could rip a movie and upload it to Pirate Bay, and they're even making money from it. That's nothing but commercial murder of those who actually make those items,” says Pontus Berg. ”We could be accused of having acted in a legal grey zone. But for national finances, I believe it was a giant plus. The availability of demos and cracked games was very important in the beginning for the sales of home computer…
Well, it's a bit self-righteous, but it shows the difference between the old scene where cracking was a technical challenge reserved for the able, and the new sort of mass-market scene we have today. I for one always cringe at the sight of technically illiterate friends who keep up with bad sitcoms through uTorrent without knowing how the file system (even the high-level abstraction of it) works. When we debate IP la…
There's not much difference between skilled software crackers providing free games to a bunch of clueless users and skilled encryption breakers/rippers/encoders providing free media to a bunch of clueless users.
The guy sounds like one of the hippies turned stock market drones. What he did in his youth was fine. What the damn kids are doing today is shit.
Re: How the Fairlight pirate group from Malmö, Sweden, conquered the world
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, it's a bit self-righteous, but it shows the difference between the old scene where cracking was a technical challenge reserved for the able, and the new sort of mass-market scene we have today. I for one always cringe at the sight of technically illiterate friends who keep up with bad sitcoms through uTorrent without knowing how the file system (even the high-level abstraction of it) works. When we debate IP la…
There's not much difference between skilled software crackers providing free games to a bunch of clueless users and skilled encryption breakers/rippers/encoders providing free media to a bunch of clueless users. The guy sounds like one of the hippies turned stock market drones. What he did in his youth was fine. What the damn kids are doing today is shit.
Yes, precisely. Kids these days, they're a new breed! We've never seen anything like this before! This is the end of the world!
Re: How the Fairlight pirate group from Malmö, Sweden, conquered the world
#8When I had just turned 20, I was in charge of business on four continents. What managment class would have given me that opportunity?
This is one of those things that still blows my mind -- how people operating in supposedly "non-capitalist" enterprises still end up learning all the things that are needed to run a successful business. (And perhaps they learn it even better.)
Re: How the Fairlight pirate group from Malmö, Sweden, conquered the world
#9"Any idiot could rip a movie and upload it to Pirate Bay, and they're even making money from it. That's nothing but commercial murder of those who actually make those items,” says Pontus Berg. ”We could be accused of having acted in a legal grey zone. But for national finances, I believe it was a giant plus. The availability of demos and cracked games was very important in the beginning for the sales of home computer…
Well, it's a bit self-righteous, but it shows the difference between the old scene where cracking was a technical challenge reserved for the able, and the new sort of mass-market scene we have today. I for one always cringe at the sight of technically illiterate friends who keep up with bad sitcoms through uTorrent without knowing how the file system (even the high-level abstraction of it) works. When we debate IP la…
> I for one always cringe at the sight of technically illiterate friends who keep up with bad sitcoms through uTorrent without knowing how the file system (even the high-level abstraction of it) works.
Most embedded and driver programmers could say exactly the same thing about most application and web programmers.
Re: How the Fairlight pirate group from Malmö, Sweden, conquered the world
#10Is this website using frames? It is basically unreadable.