even in Sweden... This is pretty bad. I mean, it's gotten to the point to where record companies are wanting to arrest you for uploading CDs or videos on iTunes, just because you don't want to spend the $.99 to buy a song that you may already own! This is a MAJOR invasion of peoples' privacy, and to help, I shall make- the NIN-SIGNAL!!!
Raid Boss (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/18/09 | Reply
When you name your website after those drunken, smelly, scurvy-filled excuses for buccaneers, that practice gross amounts of thievery and have no honor...
...then yeah, the FBI's gonna employ some ninjas to take you down.
Holy shit...Isn't a year in prison and 3 and a half mil a bit too much? I mean, all that for sharing software on the internet? I think they're starting to take this anti-piracy thing too far...Is it really about the money they lose from it, or the money they can gain from it?
Well, the high prices are the reason why groups like Pirate Bay exist: People are sick and tired of paying so much for so little. Some people just want the music or the movies, not the extra crap that comes with them.
arisu hatake
Otakuite++ | Posted 04/21/09 | Reply
@red tigress:
even in Sweden... This is pretty bad. I mean, it's gotten to the point to where record companies are wanting to arrest you for uploading CDs or videos on iTunes, just because you don't want to spend the $.99 to buy a song that you may already own! This is a MAJOR invasion of peoples' privacy, and to help, I shall make- the NIN-SIGNAL!!!
LancelotConquista
Grand Otaku | Posted 04/18/09 | Reply
@DemonKingAtticus:
I am no longer sad ^^
red tigress
Raid Boss (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/18/09 | Reply
@SomeGuy:
.........
YES.
DemonKingAtticus
A Fiery Spirit (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/18/09 | Reply
@LancelotConquista:
The trial was about the guys who run it, not technically the site itself.
So the site will still be active for the time being.
SomeGuy
Canadian Liaison (Team) | Posted 04/18/09 | Reply
@red tigress:
Even in Sweden?
LancelotConquista
Grand Otaku | Posted 04/18/09 | Reply
Oh no..I use TPB, like, a lot....I shall be sad if they no longer exist...
red tigress
Raid Boss (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/18/09 | Reply
When you name your website after those drunken, smelly, scurvy-filled excuses for buccaneers, that practice gross amounts of thievery and have no honor...
...then yeah, the FBI's gonna employ some ninjas to take you down.
EtherForce
Otakuite++ | Posted 04/17/09 | Reply
Holy shit...Isn't a year in prison and 3 and a half mil a bit too much? I mean, all that for sharing software on the internet? I think they're starting to take this anti-piracy thing too far...Is it really about the money they lose from it, or the money they can gain from it?
Ace
Senile Hipster (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/17/09 | Reply
Illegal activity? on a website called Pirate Bay?
Say it ain't so!
DemonKingAtticus
A Fiery Spirit (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/17/09 | Reply
@kugen:
Nope. They could've used ninjas, but they aren't known for stealing. Though if we talk about legal ninjas...
kugen
Grand Otaku | Posted 04/17/09 | Reply
Pirate Bay? Could they be more obvious?
~kugen
Tempus321
Senior Otaku | Posted 04/17/09 | Reply
Well, the high prices are the reason why groups like Pirate Bay exist: People are sick and tired of paying so much for so little. Some people just want the music or the movies, not the extra crap that comes with them.
stararnold
Otaku Eternal | Posted 04/17/09 | Reply
Such a fine and prison sentence will hopefully prevent future priracy events from happening.
Kei
Hell-bound Heroine (Ceiling Cat) | Posted 04/17/09 | Reply
Good Lord. ._.
That is quite the precedent. Doesn't bode well for a lot of people...
"I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect." -Harry Dresden
Miss Anonymous
Vagrant AI (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/17/09 | Reply
... whoa. Precedence indeed.
Allamorph
Spiritus Memorae (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/17/09 | Reply
Why not find a way to do something like radio or television for the internet? Radio's free, and yet we listen to copyrighted material all the time.
Schultzie
Getaway Driver (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/17/09 | Reply
All I have to say is... PooP
xaos
Burning Spirit (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/17/09 | Reply
Oh my God I just heard about this a couple minutes ago!
Man, that's some crazy stuff 3 million dollars. O_o
DemonKingAtticus
A Fiery Spirit (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/17/09 | Reply
Appeal!
Keep on fighting Pirate Bay. Your supporters are right behind ya!