If they think that it'll stop us pirating, and will help the economy, they're thicker than they sound.

We'll just buy servers overseas in countries who don't give a **** about piracy.

Great idea for new reality TV show ;)

The article states that a mere accusation is enough to get people disconnected

Protest by accusing everyone on you know of illegal filesharing (hell, even people you don't know), if enough people do this then it'll make a complete mockery of the law

It'll be a crazy first few weeks as everyone gets disconnected

Let this law pass and then exploit it.

I'd go satellite before I paid telecom a cent.

Second of all, sir, you have no evidence that The Pirate Bay is profitable at all, and besides, The Pirate Bay hires a firm to manage their finances for them; they do not deal directly with any of the money, sir.

Third of all, sir, you have no evidence that you are a "content creator" other than that you are able to write comments in the comment space for TorrentFreak, sir.

Fourth of all, sir, to "exploit" means to "use or manipulate to one's advantage" and thus, The Pirate Bay, which earns no profits, are not exploiting anyone since it is not to their advantage, sir.

You sir, are incorrect, sir. That is a bad thing, sir. It may be in your interest to be correct next time, sir.

Second of all, sir, you have no evidence that The Pirate Bay is profitable at all, and besides, The Pirate Bay hires a firm to manage their finances for them; they do not deal directly with any of the money, sir.

Third of all, sir, you have no evidence that you are a "content creator" other than that you are able to write comments in the comment space for TorrentFreak, sir.

Fourth of all, sir, to "exploit" means to "use or manipulate to one's advantage" and thus, The Pirate Bay, which earns no profits, are not exploiting anyone since it is not to their advantage, sir.

You sir, are incorrect, sir. That is a bad thing, sir. It may be in your interest to be correct next time, sir.

you have no evidence pertaining to the pirate bay's profitability because the pirate bay refuses to be financially transparent. the trial will no doubt reveal the truth when the appropriate records are subpoenaed and picked through against the pirate bay's will.

and finally, as a content creator myself, i would rather be exploited by a corporation in exchange for a little bit of money then exploited by pirates for nothing.

"some" is better than "none".

i'm not reasoned mind but i will give you my take: if you think the industry giving artists 7-14 cents from the sale of each album is "stealing" and "exploiting" then i can only imagine what derogatory terms you'd have for freeloading pirates who contribute 0%.

I had not realized that 'stfu', 'freetard' and 'Reasoned Mind' are the same person.

You are right, these nicks always are posting the same nonsense, in the same way… that pathetic people, they are so MINORITY that need to have many nicks for trying to pretend that are more than ONE or TWO persons… very funny :-)

I bet that each of these TWO idiots have on average 70 years of age… Their responses are typical of obsolete, corrupt and withered old people. :-)

You've also helped to turn me off to IP blockers like Peer Guardian. It's a rather ridiculous concept that's impossible to implement when you think about it – and actually makes it easier for anyone with access to the block list to find the more serious pirates, because what will PG users (for example) have in common? As a group, none of the blocklist IPs will be connecting to those PG users… so, by process of elimination, the anti-pirate just has to examine the group of IPs that isn't utilizing the blocklist IPs. You've just made their work easier for them if you use an IP blocker.

Credibility, sir: believability, sir
Seriousness, sir: quality of being concerned with important matters, sir

Also, sir, credibility has nothing to do with this, sir. Credibility, sir, is relevant only to testimony, sir, not to opinion, sir, logical reasoning, sir, or musings/thoughts, sir. I am not claiming to offer any testimony of information that nobody else does not already know, sir.

Credibility, sir: believability, sir
Seriousness, sir: quality of being concerned with important matters, sir

Also, sir, credibility has nothing to do with this, sir. Credibility, sir is relevant only to testimony, sir, not to opinion, sir, logical reasoning, sir, or musings/thoughts, sir. I am not claiming to offer any testimony of information that nobody else does not already know, sir.

Credibility, sir: believability
Seriousness, sir: quality of being concerned with important matters

Also, sir, credibility has nothing to do with this, sir. Credibility, sir is relevant only to testimony, sir, not to opinion, sir, logical reasoning, sir, or musings/thoughts, sir. I am not claiming to offer any testimony of information that nobody else does not already know, sir.

Credibility, sir: believability
Seriousness: quality of being concerned with important matters

Also, sir, credibility has nothing to do with this, sir. Credibility, sir is relevant only to testimony, sir, not to opinion, sir, logical reasoning, sir, or musings/thoughts, sir. I am not claiming to offer any testimony of information that nobody else does not already know, sir.

Also, sir, credibility has nothing to do with this, sir. Credibility, sir is relevant only to testimony, sir, not to opinion, sir, logical reasoning, sir, or musings/thoughts, sir. I am not claiming to offer any testimony of information that nobody else does not already know, sir.

I will put here the same question that I did a long time ago to you and that you didn't want to respond:

Could you explain me how I would be to feel motivated to support a multi billion corrupt industry (the RIAA) which has made ALL its fortune of STEALING and EXPLOITING the hard work and talent from the musicians, paying to the musicians only 7% to 14% from the sale of each album in the last 40 years?

For me, any person as you (Reasoned Mind = Sam I Am), who protects and defends something as rotten as this, is simply a whore who doesn't deserve any respect at all.

your credibility and thus the "seriousness" of your posts is called into question after it's revealed you've been fraudulently writing under numerous aliases in a pathetic effort to bolster your own psychotic musings and tin foil hat fantasies.

Non sequitor, sir:
What you, sir, have stated, sir, has nothing to do with taking one's own post seriously, sir.

Tu quoque, sir:
Whether I take my own posts seriously, sir, has nothing to do with whether you, sir, take your own posts seriously, sir.

Non sequitor, sir:
What you, sir, have stated, sir, has nothing to do with taking one's own post seriously, sir.

Tu quoque, sir:
Whether I take my own posts seriously, sir, has nothing to do with whether you take your own posts seriously, sir.

Non sequitor:
What you, sir, have stated, sir, has nothing to do with taking one's own post seriously, sir.

Tu quoque:
Whether I take my own posts seriously, sir, has nothing to do with whether you take your own posts seriously, sir.

Non sequitor:
What you, sir, have stated, sir has nothing to do with taking one's own post seriously, sir.

Tu quoque:
Whether I take my own posts seriously, sir, has nothing to do with whether you take your own posts seriously, sir.

says the loser who makes up a dozen aliases to agree with himself and almost gets banned in the process…