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Re: Pirates Take Sweden |
Aug 20, 2006, 21:06 |
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If I have to pick a side between the cheap, the poor and the lazy or the billion dollar industries that violate families on a daily basis I guess I'd have to side with the pirates.
You can't run a network like that without some sort of funding, and you aren't likely to get any from people who are too poor or cheap to buy the stuff in the first place. The funny thing is that advertisers don't seem to grasp that the people visiting a piracy site aren't exactly interested in purchasing products.
Theres a lot of people making a lot more money off much worse things.
And I don't really buy the idea that piracy is exactly the same as robbing someone. Why don't they press criminal charges against people instead of just threatening them and forcing them to send a check? It's the same thing as stealing from poor Joe in the mail room, who makes 1% of the companies executives bonus pay, right? Oh wait, he makes a shitty salaried or hourly wage no matter how much the company does or doesn't make.
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Re: Pirates Take Sweden |
Aug 19, 2006, 19:37 |
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Oh, so the answer is to steal? YARR! They be liberatin' them songs and videos from the icy grip of Davy Jones and his RIAA/MPAA minions.
Hope the Pirate Party wins a huge percentage.
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Re: Pirates Take Sweden |
Aug 19, 2006, 18:06 |
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Of which they get around a sixth. Still decent scratch for 3 20-somethings but not exactly stunning once you hit 30+.
Not that "fair use" has anything to do with it. It's a war. The machine that swallowed Shakespeare and Alexander to spit out movies stamps <copyright> on one arm while the other arm stamps fair use.
I can make a movie about the Taming Of The Shrew but if I make a movie around "Ten Things I Hate About You" I will be arse ridden by lawyers. And not in a good way.
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Re: Pirates Take Sweden |
Aug 19, 2006, 17:26 |
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Last time I checked $84,000 a month in ad revenue wasn't exactly what they had in mind when the wrote up fair use.
Fair Use wasn't some hippie radical pinko ideal, after all.
Damn those corporate bastards for reselling the heartfelt spanish-american romcom cuture back to the swedes who made it great!
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Re: Pirates Take Sweden |
Aug 19, 2006, 17:08 |
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It's less about stealing and more about having your own culture taken away from you and tagged with inflated cost to even partake of it, much less participate in it.
Fair Use wasn't some hippie radical pinko ideal, after all.
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Pirates Take Sweden |
Aug 19, 2006, 15:41 |
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From the article:
The operators of Pirate Bay, Ms. Norton writes, see their work as a cause. They believe that current copyright laws are “a broken artifact of a pre-digital age, the gristle of a rotting business model that poison culture and creativity.”
Oh, so the answer is to steal? You can only come up with so much bullshit to further your cause before you start to sound as bad as the system you're in combat against.
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