Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl

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Post by Sami_Lehtinen » Thu, Nov 22, 2012, 9:46 AM UTC

Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl
torrentfreak.com

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Post by gavanwoolery » Thu, Nov 22, 2012, 10:08 AM UTC

I'm not going to lie, this might be the best headline ever.

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Post by ashray » Thu, Nov 22, 2012, 10:11 AM UTC

Clicked through to the article hoping to see a picture of the laptop. Was not disappointed! :)

On topic though, this just shows how ridiculous the MAFIAA is getting these days. Unfortunately, this episode played out negatively on the artist as well - who probably had nothing to do with the event. So piracy harms the artist, but in this case the MAFIAA hurt the artist even more by prosecuting someone for it [1] ? Not sure if that's justice, but it feels quite strange to think about it.

[1] - The article says that the artist experienced a serious backlash on her facebook page from enraged fans.

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Post by barredo » Thu, Nov 22, 2012, 10:12 AM UTC

gavanwoolery wrote: post #2

I'm not going to lie, this might be the best headline ever.

I hope it's not too off-topic to say that I thought someone sent a TheOnion article to HN.

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Post by DiabloD3 » Thu, Nov 22, 2012, 10:13 AM UTC

I imagine the death throes of this dying industry are going to get worse before it gets better.

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Post by viseztrance » Thu, Nov 22, 2012, 10:14 AM UTC

gavanwoolery wrote: post #2

I'm not going to lie, this might be the best headline ever.

I think that's my issue with the entire story. It's over-sensationalist.

Of course, I have to believe that, or risk losing faith in humanity altogether.

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Post by lelandbatey » Thu, Nov 22, 2012, 10:15 AM UTC

I really don't like the sensationalist "pull at the heart strings", vibe in this title. I it feels a bit misleading and over-dramatized just to cause controversy. I get what they're trying to say, I but there has to be a better way to say it.

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Post by Maakuth » Thu, Nov 22, 2012, 10:17 AM UTC

viseztrance wrote: post #6

gavanwoolery wrote: post #2

I'm not going to lie, this might be the best headline ever.

I think that's my issue with the entire story. It's over-sensationalist. Of course, I have to believe that, or risk losing faith in humanity altogether.

At least TF coverage seems to be fairly faithful to original information spread over Facebook in Finnish. Of course it's harder to know for sure what the actual facts are behind this.

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Post by meaty » Thu, Nov 22, 2012, 10:18 AM UTC

DiabloD3 wrote: post #5

I imagine the death throes of this dying industry are going to get worse before it gets better.

Yes but persecution of children is usually a good turning point where people start caring about the politics.

According to my father, hardly anyone gave a shit about the stasi in east Germany until they started breaking families up. I imagine the same is true here, although I do worry about the corporate control of media world-wide and its ability to be paid to shill and keep quiet.

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Post by belorn » Thu, Nov 22, 2012, 10:19 AM UTC

Since when did this became normal and accepted in society? Whats next, police pulling candy from babies? or are we just going straight back to whip and flails to handle the dark and evil crime called copyright infringement!

This is the definition of insanity. What is wrong with the people that was part of the chain of events that lead to taking a laptop from the hands of an 9 year old girl?