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Pirates on Trial
Penthero:
--- Quote from: captiosus on February 22, 2009, 10:12:33 PM ---At least those money hogging bastards arent going after aXXo. And in the VERY UNLIKELY event thepiratebay does go down, i bet 50 bucks and all the shiat i have downloaded that another tracker will spring up to take their place. LONG LIVE THE PIRATE BAY!!!!!
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tpb won't go down even if they're found guilty, they've(tpb) said it themselves that this trial doesn't matter at all. Tpb ain't even in Sweden anymore so nothing they can do about it.
Unsubv:
I think the trial is important not because it would make the Piratebay disappear which it could not do but because it will show whether the Swedish Government will bow to pressure from US big business over the rights and freedoms of their own citizens.
I just want to say thanks to all the Swedes and Scandinavians who work so hard making the web free from big business and not just another "revenue stream" to suck money out of consumers.
The US laws are insane. 100 year copyrightes for things like superman and Disney!
Imagine a world where satire is illegal If the US gets what the money scumbags want it is a death knell for creativity.
Alan Moore's "League Of Extraordinary Gentleman" would be banned because it would violate "copyright" and in fact the latest version was banned in the US and Canada because it has James Bond in it. It has been 40 years and dozens of movies and books yet they still NEED a total ban on anyone using the character? I am surprised they have not copyrighten the bible and banned anyone from making films about Jesus without paying royalties and getting studio approval.
zherok:
http://www.amazon.com/League-Extraordinary-Gentlemen-Black-Dossier/dp/140120306X
I can still buy it on Amazon apparently. Wikipedia says it's not sold outside the US though, due to copyright issues. The third volume isn't set in Victorian times and uses more modern characters. The James Bond character is a pretty thinly veiled variant (although a pretty major fuck up, personality-wise) named Jimmy Bond.
Unsubv:
Yeah I bought it here in Canada through Amazon ,awesome 3d art by the way.
If the US studios get their way art like LOEG would never exist. Dracula and his girlfriend , the Invisible man ,Jekyll and Hyde etc would all be studfio property if thewy had the same copyright laws then as they do now and their is no way they would let Hyde do what he does to the invisible man in the second book! ;D
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: captiosus on February 22, 2009, 10:12:33 PM ---At least those money hogging bastards arent going after aXXo. And in the VERY UNLIKELY event thepiratebay does go down, i bet 50 bucks and all the shiat i have downloaded that another tracker will spring up to take their place. LONG LIVE THE PIRATE BAY!!!!!
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Don't mention that asshole. aXXo is stealing other people's work on the scene and releases it with his own name on it. He is a Scene stealer thus breaking ethical rules of filesharing not to mention Scene's own rules. I hope he will be caught and taken down so that scene release groups with real skills will get the credit they deserve for their hard work.
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