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Piratebay strikes back

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Re: Piratebay strikes back

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Post by Torn »

rimantas wrote: post #6
anApple wrote: post #5

To be honest, I hope these guys are going to jail. You must be a fool to believe that they don't own the pirate bay anymore, or are not associated with the keyman islands shell company running the company. Alone mininova disclosed making > 1 million of profit a year, piratebay's profit must be much bigger, all from the copyrighted works of others. Most of you wouldn't support piratebay anymore if your program/source…

except that source code couldn't possibly show on piratebay.

Of course it could. You/your svn/ftp could be hacked, your code could be decompiled...

Re: Piratebay strikes back

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Post by Luc »

BREIN is the organisation that puts inane 'Downloading is theft' (which it a simple lie, as any lawyer can tell you) commercials at the start of movies in the cinema and on DVD - not possible to skip them of course! Talking down to their paying public like they do, it's like they really WANT people to stop paying for movies and pirate them.

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Post by maxer »

I'm happy for the guys behind pirate bay they are making a killing, every time an article like this crops up on pages like this or digg/reddit its more marketing.

start-ups take note- controversial is king!

Re: Piratebay strikes back

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Post by eli »

anApple wrote: post #5

To be honest, I hope these guys are going to jail. You must be a fool to believe that they don't own the pirate bay anymore, or are not associated with the keyman islands shell company running the company. Alone mininova disclosed making > 1 million of profit a year, piratebay's profit must be much bigger, all from the copyrighted works of others. Most of you wouldn't support piratebay anymore if your program/source…

It's disappointing that so many people are downvoting this comment just because they disagree with you.

I think the truth is more nuanced than that, but you have a perfectly valid opinion.

Re: Piratebay strikes back

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Post by vizzy »

well, it's good to believe Reservella is not connected to TPB, but it must be run and owned by someone. TPB claims that the ownership was transferred to this company in 2006. Now how they can be continually discussing a sale of TPB if they don't own it? Anonymous offshore companies are useless under the scrutiny they get. Sooner or latter it will be known who controls it and in this case, I believe, to our major disappointment.

Re: Piratebay strikes back

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Post by anApple »

eli wrote: post #14
anApple wrote: post #5

To be honest, I hope these guys are going to jail. You must be a fool to believe that they don't own the pirate bay anymore, or are not associated with the keyman islands shell company running the company. Alone mininova disclosed making > 1 million of profit a year, piratebay's profit must be much bigger, all from the copyrighted works of others. Most of you wouldn't support piratebay anymore if your program/source…

It's disappointing that so many people are downvoting this comment just because they disagree with you. I think the truth is more nuanced than that, but you have a perfectly valid opinion.

Thanks, I don't write comments to harvest karma, but just to state my opinion. :-)

Re: Piratebay strikes back

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Post by tom_rath »

maxer wrote: post #13

I'm happy for the guys behind pirate bay they are making a killing, every time an article like this crops up on pages like this or digg/reddit its more marketing. start-ups take note- controversial is king!

Software start-ups should in particular note: If you're selling B2C and your target market is technically savvy, the folks who will pirate and distribute your work are considered heroes by many you've hoped to sell to.

Re: Piratebay strikes back

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Post by aerique »

jacquesm wrote: post #3

according to: http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/63922/pirate-bay-doet-aangifte-te... (dutch) Update 22.03 uur: Joris van Manen, advocaat voor de stichting Brein, laat in een reactie weten dat het Experian-rapport voor Brein "geen enkele rol" speelt in de zaak tegen de beheerders. Het was destijds bij een brief aan de rechtbank toegevoegd in de zaak tegen Reservella. "We doen helemaal geen beroep meer op dat rapport. Het is…

I'm willing to bet 100 euros that Brein will get away with it.
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