Independent or lesser known artists have a much bigger soapbox to stand on in order to turn heads and gather attention. Entertainment markets can no longer be cornered easily. The consumers cash has been spread out over a much larger surface area.

Example: HEDpe use to be on a major label. THat label forced their creative input on them and the band did not do well. HED pe now resides on an independent label under their own creative direction and still sruvive with a relativly large fanbase. Before the digital age, this was not a healthy alternative. But the MUSIC is thier passion and the fans see the genuity of it so they are willing to pay.

Even today, politicians rarely accept money from lobbies for personal gain. They accept it, instead, to fund their favorite projects and reelection campaigns. The whole political problem boils down to corporate lobbies and special interest projects as opposed to personal greed.

That being said, Torrentspy’s legal troubles are a result of a lack of understanding of BitTorrent. Trying to get a judge or jury of people over forty to understand that no files are hosted on a tracker is incredibly difficult. This lack of understanding causes that tracker to be made the target of everyone’s frustrations instead of the real criminals…the users.

Even so, BitTorrent trackers are different from search engines such as google, yahoo, or ask. Those search engines cooperate with artists to curb infringement, whereas some torrent sites are extreme opponents to any censorship. Even those that do try to stop infringement, are simply treated as if they were TPB.

In the good ol’ days, there was the scene and a few communities of talented people who pirated whatever they wanted to. They did NOT do this for personal gain, but rather for a challenge. Frankly, p2p networks are ruining piracy by distributing stolen goods to the masses who could not have stolen the media themselves. This results in much larger domestic losses to piracy than ever before, causing a panic in the industries (rightly so).

This is not a BBS, this is the internet. It is large scale and will one day have billions of users. This form of mass piracy is NOT sustainable. p2p lamers have DRIVEN corporations to suing their own customers. If p2p pirates keep this up, eventually you will kill the groups who produce the stolen goods you acquire, along with the industry.

So, later all. Long live the scene, and inb4 TL:DR.

but this seems to be the direction the world gov are taking today is what he offered in the beginning it sounds great on paper but of which can only lead down a very dark bleak roads for all of us!!!

That said so are a dozen other regular web page indexing search engines. Where does the witch hunt stop? What more do we sacrifice to swell the balance sheets of large corporate interests?
Simply, There has been always been theft and there always will be.
Entertainment is a luxury and the more there is the more each of us wants.
Provide quality, convenience and price and we will give you our dollars.
Free media from a torrent isn’t free in peace of mind. Each of us knows that something of worth is being taken and feels guilty for doing so.
Make your service satisfy the need for instant gratification, let each of us quiet that small voice inside and make us feel good about supporting the artists and technicians that created it by providing a convenient and secure method of payment.
Never make restrictions on how your customer can use their purchase.
Intimidating your customers by punishing other customers doesn’t make money for you. Entertainment is a desirable luxury that becomes more desirable as we are exposed to it.
A large library of music. games, movies makes a better customer.

We should all organize a simple street protest against the MAFIAA, for the lack of a better idea. At least something is better than nothing, and a street protest is nothing. Pirates of the world, unite! Organize some kind of street protest as a kind of token effort, even if it shall be ineffective. Are you with me? If you are, say “aye!”