Private property guards the existence of the state; it offers absolutely nothing to workers. The only way we can guard our interests is by collective control.

Reasoned mind = nubcakes

Bye bye loser

Nubcakes, you know nothing about Buddhism so please refrain from such ignorant drivel.

FUCK THE RIAA
FUCK THE MPAA
FUCK THE IFPI
FUCK SCIENTOLOGY TOO NOW THAT WE’RE AT IT.

THE INTERNET WILL PREVAIL!

research autarchism please.

It’s a sane alternative to anarchism.

Private property is necessary, but not to the extent it is now.

Private property, patent law and copyright became the tools that created our world’s behemoths… the companies, powerful enough to overturn states, with enough money and rsources only another company can keep them at bay.

Money is power, technology is power… and private property is the tool that lets you amass them infinitely and direct them at your whim.

Now THAT’S WRONG.

First of all, the big media companies admit that piracy is generating profit for them.

Then, in a potentially crucial antipiracy trial they set out ‘experts’ that can’t differentiate between megabits and megabytes…

This looks like an attempt to formalize status quo. Hydra bites off it’s own heads that get in the way not to get itself killed altogether… Media companies don’t stand a chance against mass piracy, they don’t stand a chance against generation change. My parents may not know how to down stuff from torrents… And my kids will know how to successfully hide from prosecution, or where to find content without being tracked. That change you can’t fight. Question is, how does a big media company survive it?

IMHO this trial is done on purpose… To draw borders. To let piracy have a small victory… but not too big of a victory.

The more I think of it, this trial does not seem to be about winning the case…

long story short:

IT’S A TRAP?

but what are they trying to catch?

What about private torrent sites with closed membership? How are you going to find them without violating a plethora of laws in the process, making the inquiry alone a criminal act?

Sure, TPB might(emphasis on ‘might’) die, but filesharing won’t. As long as I have creative access to my own computer, I can put anything I want on it. I can program a new bittorrent or filesharing app and use usenet to spread it anonymously.

The point it, regardless of the outcome of this trial, there’s nothing that can be done to stop the avalanche that is about to occur to the media industry, and they know it.

“I suppose this fucking moron the Dalai Lama hasn’t noticed every single economy based on Marxism features massive levels of poverty, a closed and controlled society – especially infomation and almost every single case has failed in less than 100 years since it’s inception.”

Actually, the association between wealth and happiness is propagated by western capitalism.
People in poverty stricken Nigeria have a higher “happiness rating” than those in the wealthy US.
Its a cultural and reinforced messaging issue. Maybe you should watch less TV.

That said, I am downloading everything I can. And noone can ever stop me from putting that on a 500GB passport and selling it when they finally do lock things down.

All it will do is take the media I have amassed, free information to anyone driven enough to collect it- and turn it into a valuable library; because people will not be able to do it themselves anymore. I can easily see a world where limits on usage make pirating nearly impossible of very specialized and those of us who continue actually DO turn it into a black market.