Search for solutions, reports & analysis
Top INQ Stories
Edited by Paul Hales
Published by Incisive Media Investments Ltd.
Terms and Conditions of use.
To advertise in Europe e-mail here
To advertise in Asia email here.
To advertise in North America email here.
Join the INQbot Mail List for a weekly guide to our news stories:
Comments
Doomed
The content mafia are use to ganging up on people. Their problem is that there are far too many people to gang up on. In fact internet users who actually know about this whole saga probably outnumber them 10k to one.The fact is that whether or not the pirate bay survives is irrelevant. A so called "victory" over piracy in the form of shutting TPB down would be completely meaningless.
Anyone remember napster?
You shut them down & a dozen came up.
Wait, remember Lycos MP3 search?
They were shut down too.
Remember when Warez sites were big?
Recall anything about private FTPs and ratios??
Seriously, the content mafia have been fighting a losing battle ever since they started fighting.
Companies and associations in disguise like the MPAA/RIAA & their kin remind me of an angry little child.
They cannot have it their way anymore & they refuse to change. They stomp their feet & cry. They attack and hit whoever they can because they are frustrated.
Think of the poor artists they cry! but they have been systematically screwing artists over ever since they conceived the notion of record deals.
Let me give you a good deal; we, the internet majority do not NEED you. For all intents and purposes you have become obsolete.
We have the technology today to deal with artists DIRECTLY. To purchase moveies DIRECTLY.
This means we no longer need to pay off a string of merry men & their little ladder of payoffs to whomever they think was a good boy this year.
We no longer need to pay for film associations, for cinema chains, for distributers...in fact with a direct access internet movie model we could very well be getting rid of 80% of the middlemen.
The so caled pirates that steal the food from their children's mouths would never buy anything they could not have gotten for free. The so called loss of revenue is a myth.
Close TPB down, close mininova, close demonoid, close moviex, close all of them.
What will that achieve?
Nothing.
Maybe it's time to wisen up & think of what people want & how to give it to them for a price they are willing to pay.
Downloads?
But isn't Pirate Bay an indexing service? They don't actually host any files for download.Appeal
Andreas could be freed of the charges if he appeas to a higher instance. It's what happened with the last file sharer that got sentenced in Sweden.Add a new comment: