What i mean by that is that you get rapists, murderer’s(serial, phsycopathic killers ect.), Car boosters, scammers(Fraud), prostitution, corruption(sometimes in the very law itself ect.

why go on a rampage against torrent sites when there is problems like the above in this world, i just doesnt make fucking sense to me.

And as for kuik or whatever the moron’s name is taking something that doesnt belong to him is just as good as stealing and makes him no better than the rest of us that use torrents.

Sorry for my poor english it is not my home language and i have a difficult time spelling correct when typing in english.

the mosquito stops sucking when you slap it

Ask him if he has confiscated some cocaine along with it and if he works under the effect of that when BREIN does all its well known idiocies.

LMAO

The beauty about the net is that you can go to whatever site you want and if you do not like a certain site there are a millions of others you can visit instead.

Why is SomeGuy on Torrentfreak?

Not because he wants to be here.
Only reason he would be and stays here and post in all the comment threads of all the recent articles in the way he does, is if he had some kind of gain out of it.

Be it being paid to be an ass @Torrentfreak or be it working for a company that has something to gain with ruining the reading experience at Torrentfreak.

SomeGuy, ever heard about Critical thinking?

Most people reading Torrentfreak are capable of doing just that.

Its not because there are some errors in an article (which imho get corrected quite often on here, which you can’t say about mainstream media) that people believe every word that is said to the letter.

And what does being american have to do with anything, I’m not american, quite a few of the authors on this site aren’t american? What does being american have to do with having a valid opinion? Not all Americans are Bush or Bush Minded.

Is that some kind of half wit way to avoid being located, trivializing and insulting Americans to camouflage that you in fact are an american?

Trust me, none cares where you are, who you are, what you do, what you like or dislike.
A lot of people however would love you to be some other place.

Noone cares about what you say. Only about how obvious it is that your here for all the wrong reasons.

Since its always the same bullshit condescending attitude saying Torrentfreak is bad, people that visit Torrentfreak and Torrent sites are bad and Copyright groups are good.

How obvious can you be? Either your just a general troll like all sites have them or your here on assignment to do damage.

Either way, no one cares about what you say. Your just a nuisance, a pest that buzzes unintelligibly in our ears. A bug that needs to be squatted.

This story can be cleared up in no time, without fuss and heated arguments. As you are on emailing terms with Kuik, please ask him which court case it was. It won’t take you a minute.

Please note that I did not make you out to be a ‘copyright hero’. I mentioned both the freelance case and your take on traditional media’s attitude towards copyright. And as for Wikipedia, stop complaining and edit the errors in the entry.

Well I’ll be the last person to say that geenstijl is a proper journalistic medium, and torrentfreaks of course has quite a bit of bias.

However I do think that Tim Kuik, by using the laptop that was confiscated and awarded, is sending the wrong message. I’m pretty sure it’s all legal what happened, but it does leave a bad taste in my mouth.

He calls people whom download copyrighted materials illegally, thieves, yet sees no problem using a laptop he did not buy.

Legal or not, that just smells like double standards.

Oops, NOW I screwed up. Addressed “Yeah Right” as if he’s Ernesto. That’s stupid, I apologize. I stand by the rest of course.

See? It’s possible to admit mistakes! :-)

It’s also a great idea to rely on Wikipedia to make a copyright hero out of me. I do not agree with what they write there. Could you have asked ME in this case? Didn’t you notice that I make all my work, including a couple books, freely available after publication? Or was that info inconvenient? It’s right beside the link to my movies, at http://www.blankesteijn.com.

Please also check out my radio column of today, on Cory Doctorow’s books and his position on copyright. It will be available, free, at http://www.bnr.nl/vandaag as of 16:10 CET today.

It didn’t take a lot of digging to find out that post 138 is by Herbert Blankesteijn, indeed a respected Dutch IT/internet columnist. Hello there, Herbert!

Here’s the link for his radio column where he tries to debunk the Kuik story (in Dutch) Http://www.bnr.nl/radio/columns/internet/12820122?archief=#

In his audio piece, Herbert gives a little more detail than he does in his post here. According to Kuik, “a hacker broke into the network of a games developer and stole a game still in development at the time. After a court case the hacker was convicted, and his confiscated laptop was awarded to the rights holder, who was represented by us.”

Still, this does not take the story very far. Confiscated goods tend to be sold or destroyed, and I’d be very interested in the name of the hacker and the case. I could be wrong, but Kuik’s comments seem to have all the hallmarks of an urban legend. Something a pirate busting CEO would try and wow his peers with: “You know, this happens to be the actual notebook from the guy who stole Half-life from us!”.

Please Herbert, be more of a journalist and check this story out properly before posting.

Coïncidentally, Herbert is also one of the people behind the Freelancers Association, a body that fights for the intellectual property rights of freelance writers. In 2002 the organisation succesfully sued a publisher for using copyright material and was awarded €2,3 million in damages (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Blankesteijn).

So, it seems Herbert’s attitude to copyright is straight forward. Or is it? Not really. He thinks the behaviour of the traditional media towards sharing is childish, writes pieces entitles “No worries for illegal downloaders in Holland” and he doesn’t think copyright as it stands is viable in the long term.

On the whole, Blankensteijn’s position on IP sharing seems warped, and rather ego-centered (I’m trying very hard not to use ‘hypocritical’ here), and this is perhaps a reflection of sharing’s legal status in Holland. Downloading music and films is legal there, downloading games and software is not. But, as uploading any IP material is illegal, downloading copyright music and films with upload enabled torrent software is also considered illegal.

Just a final note: in looking at Herberts favorite movies list on IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=19255233), I noticed he tags some with “Bargain DVD”, “Retail DVD”. Other are tagged “vob”, “divx”, “divx, no subtitles”, “mpg, no subtitles”. Be careful, Herbert!

@138 So you’re a journalist, right? Did you even ask Kuik about which actual court case this was? From what I can find on Dutch law I gather that these goods are sold at auction. I could find no reference to any case in which impounded goods are awarded directly to a plaintiff.

Please tell me you have looked into this and there are plenty of cases where this does happen. Otherwise I’ll have to conclude that Kuik is lying again and you’re a crap journalist.

BAHHHHHHH BAHHHHHHHH

it doesnt say HE confiscated the laptop, it actually does’nt say HOW he came by it at all

“And I’m pretty sure he didn’t get it from “domeinen”.
use your crystal ball for that one did you?

trot along now

some pirate justice is seriously required.

Tim tells me the laptop was lawfully awarded to the party his organization represented in the case against said “hacker”, to compensate for damages. End of story.

What do you guys think? Sure, he must be a thief. The man’s a lawyer, for chrissake. That means he knows the law, get it?

Now in p2p matters I am absolutely not on his side but all this bullshit based on a single second hand half-fact from a totally unreliable source (eg GeenStijl.nl) annoys the hell out of me. Could you all get back to your downloads now?

Oh, right.. And what about the so called ddos on the brein website which wasn’t a ddos at all?? Just to blame TPB ppl??? Was all over the news also.

They are all enemies of society! All they care about is how they can exploit artists and artlovers for their own personal gain!

And shame on those artists that still support this kind of behavior! Don’t forget almost all of your works are derivative in one way or another anyway.

2 Sep 05, 2009 at 04:36 by Al

You WOULDN’T steal a laptop…! oh wait…

Honestly watch the movie “hackers are people too” and it will answer ALOT of questions.

and for all those people who BS people who pirate music. dude! if the artist don’t get paid its not because they steel music. record label companies steal from the artist! for all those people who don’t believe me just google the procedure to “sign to a record label company” and u guys will get ur answer. Basically what they do is pay the artist upfront for their music then they expect that their profit is going to role in. but most cases record companies pay them SHIT! honestly they are the ones steeling from artist!

LOL

“I also don’t get why he would want a confiscated laptop, he has enough money to buy a top end one.”

Because it has PR value for him to be able to say in the media that he took away a hacker’s evil tool and is now using it for good. :)

“and will have to pay back the money they earned from adverts to the media execs/government/artists.”

Any money made from ads did not come from the artists, let alone “media execs”. I’m sorry, SomeGuy, but your intelligence seems sub-par. The way you communicate is immature and your arrogance is shameful.

“Bought politicians; the Pirate Bay crew qualifies, considering that they made millions by helping facilitate the theft of the content of others.”

Exactly whom did the TPB people buy? Why do you make up shit? If you want any serious responses, stop acting like an eight-year-old yourself and don’t be a condescending jerk!

“I earn actual money (not World of Warcraft gold) which I then use to legally buy media.”

So that you can be happy that you are supporting the media execs and the industry. Never mind the artists who actually do the work. You are a joke!

“He doesn’t look like the sort of person one would want to meet in a dark alley.”

I’d wager there’s more than a few people that wouldn’t mind running into Mr. Kuik in a dark alley. :P

Why can they sue kids for so much money and yet you can go steal a few cds from your local store and get a slap on the wrist? While they sue you for thousands just for a few songs. America at its finest.

That’s asking for pwnage

It would suck to be you! not much room in your mind…

The international news giants turn out crap/false stories, cover ups, and misrepresentations every single day on every single topic of substance, with a very clear agenda of forcing their desired reality on the rest of the world.

You take a snippet out of a trash rag, and call that accurate sourcing?

To Ernesto, I suspect that Kuik will fabricate some BS cover story, after his troll challenged it.

but more followup will likely result in him eventually tripping up..

they want to maintain their stranglehold monopoly on artists and money, but the hidden reason is to control art and media itself, molding our perception of reality, and who makes it in the industry, at the behest of the chosen ones and related devil-worshippers.

soon they’ll be screaming anti-Semite.

SCRW THE ESTABLISHMENT !!!!

BREIN YOU ARE KAKA !!!!

maybe a camp fire near the building might send a real message, one of NON violent act but we are fast coming to that time for true democracy to continue we the people must rise up against the old guard, the old ones that seek to subjugate and control

RISE UP and tell them SCREAM AT THEM
if you think 7 million are pirating GET OUT IN A STREET that many will topple the soviet union whats it gonna do to any actual democratic govt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We’ve been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert. This is our world now… the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn’t run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore… and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge… and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias… and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it’s for our own good, yet we’re the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual,but you can’t stop us all… after all, we’re all alike.

Thanks very much for his Picture.
We will give this to Tattys:
Most wanted……….

This what is happening anyway So?

Also there is a limit to how “strict severe and heavily enforced” the “”law”" (that had ceased to be the law of the people by the way and therefore has no legitimacy) can be.

And then even more corporate parasites will die. This will be endless until they are all gone.

Fine with me.