This whole thing is just nonsense. Really, what is different between torrenting and your public library other than the fact that the library has limited resources? Torrenting is just like a more efficient Library. Libraries today actually stock more movies than your local rental facility. They also have CDs, books, newspapers, and all of this can be taken out by anyone at anytime for no cost. A lot of these materials are donated to the Library from people. Are the libraries hurting media sales? Did the book companies freak out when libraries first started and people were reading for free? If the libraries of the world had an endless stock of any book they wanted would they be shut down, sued and called pirates? What is the internet if not a library database of information and media? Either way, the pirates feel they are justified (and I believe they most certainly are), and the government thinks they are breaking laws. One way or another, one of the sides is going to crack eventually and either the government is just going to ban all trackers and start suing the pants off of everyone and their cousins, or they will lose a few cases, pirating will start gaining support from the people and eventually the government will crack. Most likely, nothing like this will happen and you will just have the occasional court cases, some that fail and some that don't, along with keeping everything illegal, and everyone will continue on.
Personally, I think any corporations or countries suing websites for pirating is just ridiculous. The suing should be kept to the owners of the content that was being supplied illegally. The whole mess with Italy trying to sue TPB is ridiculous as well. The creators aren't Italian, the site isn't Italian in origin, nothing about it is Italian (unless a few Italian movies or CD's are offered on the site). The Italians are accessing the site, not the other way around. Someone commented on the news site and said it best. If the Arabs suddenly decide that any content on the internet where girls aren't properly covered over the face is illegal, should they be able to sue every website in the world that doesn't adhere to this rule just because they can access it?
