Comments on: Hollywood Appeals Decision Not to Shutdown OpenBitTorrent

By: DeathStalker

DeathStalker — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:40:30 +0000

As of now, http://www.openbittorrent.com and the track both seem to be offline.

Anyone know anything more?

By: wiggle

wiggle — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:44:10 +0000

“no different to landlords who knowingly allow prostitution on their premises.”
No different? But what about … omg, you know, now that I think about it, it’s *exactly the same thing*! What a fool I have been for even questioning this obvious fact!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:02:16 +0000

Movie and music piracy should be stopped, i thnk that’s something we should agree about, esp. Reasoned Mind.

Should is a matter that's quickly fading into irrelevance. Big Content spent a decade trying to stop people from downloading and sharing creative works. They failed hard. Whether or not it's okay to download, which is a very debateable and conditional thing, it's pretty much impossible at this point to stop it. Everyone would be best served by adapting to the changes wrought by technology, instead of trying to resist them.

By: GagoAngBatasNinyo

GagoAngBatasNinyo — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:20:38 +0000

The File Sharing Community is about 100 times larger than the coasts of Somalia.
Shutting down file sharing is like the US sending troops to Afganistan or Iraq, u kill the bad guys but u massacre about 1000 civilians in return. Movie and music piracy should be stopped, i thnk that’s something we should agree about, esp. Reasoned Mind.
I just bought a Beatles CD and I want to share it to my friend in Hawaii. So what would I do? I rip it into mp3s and share it. But wait? Reasoned Mind notices it. He wonders, “Oh sh1t! What the FU(K! This guy cant do that? I, I mean, record companies didn’t get a single cent in that transaction? I should sue this half-minded faggot, fu(k his mother and shut down tracker sites!”
So, after sailing the whole Somali coast, up to Cape of Good Hope, he got tired, and thought of something. “I, I mean record companies should install an ‘internet music and movie counter’, that every bit of movie and music content sent over the internet should be monitored so that I, I mean the record companies have a sale. Oh FU(K, Im a genius!”
2 minutes later, a half-minded Asian ransacks his house, fu(ks his mother and inserted an 10-track CD of Beatles in his ass…, then to his mouth…

By: GagoAngBatasNinyo

GagoAngBatasNinyo — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:42:16 +0000

Reasoned Mind sounds like a Hollywood Producer…

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Guai da copyright per bar e tracker « YBlog — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:14:06 +0000

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By: Drake3

Drake3 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:54:26 +0000

This whole mess is simply just a case of the rich few versus the poor many. The rich few win when things are calm and going smoothly. It is when the poor many get riled up that things change.

Right now, that is exactly what is happening. The rich few are directly attacking some of the poor many and we are getting riled up. The more they attack us, the more of us who will stand up and resist. If the rich few keep this up they will be overpowered as our power grows with each attack.

By: DeathStalker

DeathStalker — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:19:41 +0000

People have to remember that Hollywood (MPAA) also wanted to stop the production of VHS players and tapes – remember that Jack Valenti lamented that VHS would be the “death” pf the industry.

Hmm, seems to me that they still make more off of video/DVD than the movies make at the BO, right?

Just shows the intelligence level (or lack thereof) of the people in charge of the industry.

Just a dinosaur waiting around to die.

By: Whatever

Whatever — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:53:05 +0000

@108 & @109
Employed or unemployed, the troll is admitting to stealing. Stealing from the boss with time and bandwidth OR from the community for using his time paid by unemployment benefit to find a job. Ok, he/she/it could also be leeching of a partner although can’t imagine the troll having one.

If there is a “kill this troll law” and the troll is always sticking to law (so it says) would the troll give itself up for lynching being a perfect law abiding troll or would it flee and hide to stay alive ? Come to think of it, got a nice analogy. If East Germany would have been full of reasoned trolls and they do as they claim the wall would still stand today as being against the state is illegal.

Ontopic:
Strange comparison to claim something is illegal as prostitution was legalized in the Netherlands some time ago (so the hookers can pay taxes now). Dont know about Sweden but it might be legal there as well, anyway it is not as clear as it seems. It sounds like they’re afraid to use the magic words that lets politicians take away peoples freedom because it would be too obvious.

I wonder what kind of reason the bought Swedish courts will think of this time to order an ISP to start checking for infringments. This will set the next step towards a kind of Romania (in the past) where in the end this private policing ends up in spying on your neighbours.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:31:16 +0000

Prostitution? I see, Americans who think prostitution is illegal elsewhere…