Comments on: Rick Falkvinge Schools Pirate After Botched Leak of Swarmwise Book

By: Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 05:59:00 +0000

And I am Benjamin Franklin. But me claiming that doesn’t make it true now does it? You claim you left the scene due to “corrupt thieving cocky back stabbing assholes”, well aren’t you the cocky asshole yourself?

By: chichachachi

chichachachi — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 04:21:00 +0000

And bobmail sticks his tail between his legs for at least 18 days.

By: Scary_Devil_Monastery

Scary_Devil_Monastery — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 12:08:00 +0000

Paulo Coelho. Neil Gaiman.

By: Scary_Devil_Monastery

Scary_Devil_Monastery — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 12:07:00 +0000

Of course he does. If his work spreads on TPB he’ll be read by millions of people.

Which is why, I assume, he rushed out a pre-release packaged in a legible format once he found it’d been leaked in a botch-job version.

By: Scary_Devil_Monastery

Scary_Devil_Monastery — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:56:00 +0000

15 points short? Amazing. And you still can’t either read or grasp common logic?

“The issue is that if it’s free, don’t buy it.”

The issue apparently being that Rick offers both options.

Which to you personally appears to be blasphemy. Why are you even arguing, if you don’t perceive it to be a threat?

Oh, wait. For you and the dogma you stand for, it is.

By: Scary_Devil_Monastery

Scary_Devil_Monastery — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:53:00 +0000

“Can you tell me why Rick didn’t release the book when it was done, or release it chapter by chapter as he went along?”

He did.

In fact, he actually published the chapters as webpages on his blog. One by one.

Bobmail…stop even trying. By now you and your buddy “Anon” have been caught as bald-faced liars desperate to mudsling so many times anyone even reading this thread is coming away with the conclusion that the anti-pirates here are clinically insane.

By: Scary_Devil_Monastery

Scary_Devil_Monastery — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:50:00 +0000

“He stands for infringement while planning to sell his own work.”

Along with publishing links to where the same work is freely available by torrent, direct download, in several different formats.

“I think we have all the information we need on Falkvinge. Good night.”

As in “he abides by pirate principle?

Curtains for you indeed, Baghdad bob. G’night.

By: Scary_Devil_Monastery

Scary_Devil_Monastery — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:48:00 +0000

"He would have everyone else in the world work for free, without any chance of getting paid for their work. Why should he be different?" He isn't. In fact he has, on his homepages, expressed nothing but joy that people read the book. He's linked to a pdf download of it. He's linked to where you can get the free epub version. And for those who actually want it in paper form, they can likely either use their own printer and manufacture a copy or buy it from Amazon. But why let the truth stop you from trying to peddle a straw man aimed to discredit?

By: Scary_Devil_Monastery

Scary_Devil_Monastery — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:43:00 +0000

“I think that it should send warning bells to anyone if they see a large
movement with one guy at the top pulling all the strings.”

You mean as in “a political party”?

That aside, just to point something out – Rick isn’t “at the head” of anything. He pulls no strings. Has no authority.

He’s a public speaker, yes.

But for you poor lost lambs in the copyright cult, it seems to be hard to grasp that if Rick were to bellyup and die tomorrow, the pirate movement he started will just keep on rolling blithely along.

We’re not like you sheeple, desperately looking for a shepherd to tell us what to do next.

By: Scary_Devil_Monastery

Scary_Devil_Monastery — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:36:00 +0000

“Although I haven’t read his book, I can guarantee it’s a better love story than Twilight.”

To be fair, though, so’s the average tax manual.