Comments on: Policy Research Chief Blasts TorrentFreak Piracy Research, But Why?

By: Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:12:00 +0000

When you “own” a movie, you have personal property. The production of the movie itself, and it’s existence as a piece of IP, is “social property”. Social property is governed by the system of social relations in place, in this case capitalism. You are attempting to share your personal property, (or possibly create new social property using it), but running up against the social relations paradigm whenever you do it. Hence you personally experience the contradictions and tensions of capitalism in your own life on this and many other issues.

By: Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:09:00 +0000

Gathering statistics on criminal behavior is indeed unacceptable – when the statistics tend to reflect the criminality of the system itself. For example, despite a federal law to gather statistical data on the number of people killed and wounded by police in the United States every year, a law in force since 1996, the data has never been gathered because no infrastructure or funding was ever put in place to accomplish it.

Reportage on criminality, like everything else, reflects the values of the system – highly subjective and selective to favor the status quo and the powers that be.

By: Toni Jones

Toni Jones — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 21:25:00 +0000

“It IS interesting that TorrentFreak brazenly publishes a list of the
most pirated movies. That’s pretty in-your-face behavior, considering
that piracy is illegal,”

Okay America! No more reporting on murders, drug dealers, human trafficking, illegal immigration, burglaries, bank robberies, or even red light running. Reporting on things that are illegal is BRAZEN.

By: Erthwjim

Erthwjim — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 18:10:00 +0000

Or anything that might fall under the black market….

By: Erthwjim

Erthwjim — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 18:09:00 +0000

Rule of Law? I thought Libertarians were actually for less government intervention. Not only does this guy not know much about piracy, he apparently doesn’t know much about libertarians.

By: PiRat

PiRat — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 11:10:00 +0000

If you read up on what they have planned, you will have no rights.

By: Somebody_Else

Somebody_Else — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 06:21:00 +0000

The only difference between a regional government and a planetary one is the scope and borders.

By: me

me — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 23:29:00 +0000

indeed.

By: Arr Matey

Arr Matey — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 22:15:00 +0000

Amen, brotha!

By: Arr Matey

Arr Matey — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 22:11:00 +0000

“A blog post published yesterday by the MPAA’s Kate Bedingfield happily cited our recent (in-your-face) Walking Dead piracy stats, although we had to summon a wry smile when we saw that the MPAA chose to credit Variety as the source and not us. Perhaps there really is no respect for creators these days.”

Time to sue for copyright infringement! Take that, Alphabet-Soup Guys!