[quote]The Pirate Bay has begun accepting contributions from the public, allowing users to donate exclusively via the P2P crypto-currency Bitcoin. One of the advantages for the operators of the infamous BitTorrent site is that Bitcoin funds can’t easily be seized or traced back to a person. The downside, on the other hand, is that everything that’s sent to a Bitcoin address is public, so the entire world can see how many virtual coins are rolling in.[/quote]
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It's a match made in heaven
Wow, Bitcoins can now be used to buy drugs [i]and[/i] fund criminal copyright infringement!
Yay Bitcoin!
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;40384147]Wow, Bitcoins can now be used to buy drugs [i]and[/i] fund criminal copyright infringement!
Yay Bitcoin![/QUOTE]
The pirate bay is so [I]criminal![/I]
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;40384147]Wow, Bitcoins can now be used to buy drugs [i]and[/i] fund criminal copyright infringement!
Yay Bitcoin![/QUOTE]the pirate bay doesn't host any illegal files
it's not illegal
[QUOTE=TehWhale;40384163]the pirate bay doesn't host any illegal files
it's not illegal[/QUOTE]
depends on the country
to the united states, it's illegal
but in the country it's hosted, it's not
[QUOTE=supersnail11;40384224]depends on the country
to the united states, it's illegal
but in the country it's hosted, it's not[/QUOTE]
Is it really? What laws do they break? I thought it was perfectly legal.
[QUOTE=Shadaez;40384238]Is it really? What laws do they break? I thought it was perfectly legal.[/QUOTE]
It is
Just some facepunchers who don't know what they're talking about, as usual
[QUOTE=TehWhale;40384163]the pirate bay doesn't host any illegal files
it's not illegal[/QUOTE]
I don't know what third-world country you're in , but here in America TPB engages in criminal copyright infringement.
How? TPB is a search engine pretty much, it doesn't host the files.
[QUOTE=supersnail11;40384224]depends on the country
to the united states, it's illegal
but in the country it's hosted, it's not[/QUOTE]
Not true considering they were sentenced to pay an enormous sum of money and got one year in jail.
They were still up after that since the pirate party provided them with bandwidth, something that is not illegal, or at least was not illegal since they will have to go to court unless they stop.
[QUOTE=Mike Tyson;40384430]How? TPB is a search engine pretty much, it doesn't host the files.[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure knowingly contributing to illegal activities is illegal in the US.
Ah. I didn't know that.
[QUOTE=darkrei9n;40384452]Pretty sure knowingly contributing to illegal activities is illegal in the US.[/QUOTE]
Well, once the politicians and in-house corruption is gone, we can worry about little internet activates that hollywood does not like.
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;40384419]I don't know what third-world country you're in , but here in America TPB engages in criminal copyright infringement.[/QUOTE]
It's people like you that make the rest of us Americans look fucking stupid and arrogant. Kindly quit that.
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[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;40384419]I don't know what third-world country you're in , but here in America TPB engages in criminal copyright infringement.[/QUOTE]
Copyright infringement in the united states has ceased to be a word that has any bearing. It's devolved to a joke term that means whatever the the loudest lobbyist wants it to mean. You can call a turd a "rose," but it's still a fucking turd to everybody else in the world.
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;40384555]Copyright infringement in the united states has ceased to be a word that has any bearing. It's devolved to a joke term that means whatever the the loudest lobbyist wants it to mean. You can call a turd a "rose," but it's still a fucking turd to everybody else in the world.[/QUOTE]
[quote][b]What is copyright infringement?[/b]
As a general matter, copyright infringement occurs when a copyrighted work is reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly displayed, or made into a derivative work without the permission of the copyright owner.[/quote]
[url]http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-definitions.html[/url]
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;40384147]Wow, Bitcoins can now be used to buy drugs [i]and[/i] fund criminal copyright infringement!
Yay Bitcoin![/QUOTE]
Money can be used to buy literally anything and you're complaining about bitcoins?
[QUOTE=darkrei9n;40384452]Pretty sure knowingly contributing to illegal activities is illegal in the US.[/QUOTE]
I am pretty sure that conspiracy to commit copyright infringement isn't something that will hold up in any court.
Then again the problem with the American law system is that anything can become law if lobbied enough, and Hollywood has enough cash for that.
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;40384580][url]http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-definitions.html[/url][/QUOTE]
US copyright infringement. TPB is not based in the US.
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;40384649]US copyright infringement. TPB is not based in the US.[/QUOTE]
So I don't need to pay for things created by foreign developers? That's good to know.
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;40384147]Wow, Bitcoins can now be used to buy drugs [I]and[/I] fund criminal copyright infringement!
Yay Bitcoin![/QUOTE]
Wow, any currency can be used to fund any criminal activity!
[QUOTE=Shadaez;40384238]Is it really? What laws do they break? I thought it was perfectly legal.[/QUOTE]
It counts as [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_liability#Contributory_liability]Contributory liability[/url].
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;40384419]I don't know what third-world country you're in , but here in America TPB engages in criminal copyright infringement.[/QUOTE]
They have no tracker and they host no torrents.
They're as complicit in copyright infringement as Google.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;40384987]They have no tracker and they host no torrents.
They're as complicit in copyright infringement as Google.[/QUOTE]
Except Google complies to take down requests whereas TPB [url=http://thepiratebay.se/legal]ignores and flaunts[/url] take down requests.
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;40384740]So I don't need to pay for things created by foreign developers? That's good to know.[/QUOTE]
Sure, except it's not foreign developers that have issue with TPB, it's foreign publishers.
The only people bothering to pursue TPB or even have a gripe with them for that matter are music and film publisher organizations who are butthurt because they think they are losing profit, when in reality it's just their own inability or lack of initiative to adjust to a competitive free market system that causes their "loss of profit;" and whether they are actually losing profit or not is hugely up for debate. So rather than provide easy to download content at competitive prices, they opt instead to sue the fuck out of people who infringe on their corrupt oligopoly.
We just had the same argument about a week ago can we please not do it again.
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;40385114]Sure, except it's not foreign developers that have issue with TPB, it's foreign publishers.
The only people bothering to pursue TPB or even have a gripe with them for that matter are music and film publisher organizations who are butthurt because they think they are losing profit, when in reality it's just their own inability or lack of initiative to adjust to a competitive free market system that causes their "loss of profit;" and whether they are actually losing profit or not is hugely up for debate. So rather than provide easy to download content at competitive prices, they opt instead to sue the fuck out of people who infringe on their corrupt oligopoly.[/QUOTE]
Guess you're right. Can't compete with free.
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;40385189]Guess you're right. Can't compete with free.[/QUOTE]
Totally. That must be why nobody is making art or music anymore (also why there's no free art, free music, free software or free operating systems), it must also be why publishing firms are failing left and right; and are not, in fact, richer than they ever were.
Woe is me, why oh [I]why[/I] didn't we listen to KillerJaguar when we had the chance!??
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;40385025]Except Google complies to take down requests whereas TPB [url=http://thepiratebay.se/legal]ignores and flaunts[/url] take down requests.[/QUOTE]
[quote]iRacing: [URL="https://thepiratebay.se/static/ThePirateBay_Take_Down_Letter.pdf"]letter [/URL](yes, they sent us a PDF) [URL="https://thepiratebay.se/static/annoying.png"]our response[/URL] (the actual response was a 1MB BMP file, but well...)[/quote]
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