MU constantly pulls files that are reported for copyright infringement.
INTERNETS, 18th of January 2012. PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would “do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear”. He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person to own the copyright to a motion picture. Because of Edisons patents for the motion pictures it was close to financially impossible to create motion pictures in the North american east coast. The movie studios therefor relocated to California, and founded what we today call Hollywood. The reason was mostly because there was no patent. There was also no copyright to speak of, so the studios could copy old stories and make movies out of them – like Fantasia, one of Disneys biggest hits ever. So, the whole basis of this industry, that today is screaming about losing control over immaterial rights, is that they circumvented immaterial rights. They copied (or put in their terminology: “stole”) other peoples creative works, without paying for it. They did it in order to make a huge profit. Today, they’re all successful and most of the studios are on the Fortune 500 list of the richest companies in the world. Congratulations – it’s all based on being able to re-use other peoples creative works. And today they hold the rights to what other people create. If you want to get something released, you have to abide to their rules. The ones they created after circumventing other peoples rules. The reason they are always complainting about “pirates” today is simple. We’ve done what they did. We circumvented the rules they created and created our own. We crushed their monopoly by giving people something more efficient. We allow people to have direct communication between eachother, circumventing the profitable middle man, that in some cases take over 107% of the profits (yes, you pay to work for them). It’s all based on the fact that we’re competition. We’ve proven that their existance in their current form is no longer needed. We’re just better than they are. And the funny part is that our rules are very similar to the founding ideas of the USA. We fight for freedom of speech. We see all people as equal. We believe that the public, not the elite, should rule the nation. We believe that laws should be created to serve the public, not the rich corporations. The Pirate Bay is truly an international community. The team is spread all over the globe – but we’ve stayed out of the USA. We have Swedish roots and a swedish friend said this: The word SOPA means “trash” in Swedish. The word PIPA means “a pipe” in Swedish. This is of course not a coincidence. They want to make the internet inte a one way pipe, with them at the top, shoving trash through the pipe down to the rest of us obedient consumers. The public opinion on this matter is clear. Ask anyone on the street and you’ll learn that noone wants to be fed with trash. Why the US government want the american people to be fed with trash is beyond our imagination but we hope that you will stop them, before we all drown. SOPA can’t do anything to stop TPB. Worst case we’ll change top level domain from our current .org to one of the hundreds of other names that we already also use. In countries where TPB is blocked, China and Saudi Arabia springs to mind, they block hundreds of our domain names. And did it work? Not really. To fix the “problem of piracy” one should go to the source of the problem. The entertainment industry say they’re creating “culture” but what they really do is stuff like selling overpriced plushy dolls and making 11 year old girls become anorexic. Either from working in the factories that creates the dolls for basically no salary or by watching movies and tv shows that make them think that they’re fat. In the great Sid Meiers computer game Civilization you can build Wonders of the world. One of the most powerful ones is Hollywood. With that you control all culture and media in the world. Rupert Murdoch was happy with MySpace and had no problems with their own piracy until it failed. Now he’s complainting that Google is the biggest source of piracy in the world – because he’s jealous. He wants to retain his mind control over people and clearly you’d get a more honest view of things on Wikipedia and Google than on Fox News. Some facts (years, dates) are probably wrong in this press release. The reason is that we can’t access this information when Wikipedia is blacked out. Because of pressure from our failing competitors. We’re sorry for that. THE PIRATE BAY, (K)2012
If feds can bust Megaupload, why bother with anti-piracy bills?As some of the internet's biggest power players, including Google and Wikipedia, protested two fast-tracked anti-piracy bills going through Congress, the US Justice Department launched an attack on one of the web's biggest alleged scofflaws, Megaupload, and, in a counterattack, the hacker group Anonymous temporarily blacked out DOJ's website.Techno-pundits and mainstream observers quickly connected the dots between anti-piracy protests and the Megaupload arrests, notching the dustup as potentially the biggest salvo yet in the multi-billion dollar internet copyright wars pitting, in essence, Hollywood and its Washington lobbyists against internet free speech and its hacker protectors.
I have some friends who had the misfortune to have this prick stay at their lodge. He made all the staff kneel in his presence, and his idea of fun was to ring up the 24 hr chef at 2 am request an elaborate meal and when it was delivered he would change his mind and get something else.I hope bubba tears him a new one in a federal prison
TPB relesed this which I found interesting
Yea fuck those rich content characters and their millions of dollars.Instead lets give millions of dollars to fat douche-bags that don't create anything instead.
I agree.There's no way I'd pay someone for pirated content instead of the people who created it (like megadoucheload or any of the other filesharing sites). All these justifications to pirate just don't wash with me.Create something to sell, spend your time and money making it then watch people take it without giving you anything. See how that feels, yes, that's right, it feels like something is being stolen from you.Saying that 'they' have millions of dollars so it's OK is just another weak way of self justification. Fact is, not everyone involved is rich, just because some of the main people are.It's only people who offer nothing, contribute zero and sit back consuming like a black hole that want to justify taking other people's work for free./ 2 cents
The Demon Lord, if the content creator wanted it publically available for 'easy advertising', they would make it so. But they don't. Much less people I know buy music now than they did 10-15 years ago. That alone is enough for me to know piracy impacts sales.
Based on what Study/findings?remember that correlation doesn't equal Causation:http://torrentfreak.com/swiss-govt-downloading-movies-and-music-will-stay-legal-111202/the US economy has taken a downturn because of Retardation and Greed based policies (oh the Irony) which in turn has caused ripple effects on other economies less disposable income could Also account for the downturn of salesand not to mention the Quality of material being released could also be a factor...As for Easy advertising, it isn't about Easy advertising, there argument is that people that download don't buy the product they have downloaded and this is causing them lost revenue. the retort to this is that people that download, on average, spend MORE on products (not just the media, but associated and complimentary offerings) than someone who doesn't download. my case in point - I download an album from a band I haven't heard. I like the Album, I buy it, I buy the T-shirt and when they come to NZ I pay the $80 to go see them. Hell in some cases I have flown over to Aus to see them.
what do I need a study/findings for? I was pointing out my own real-world experiences based on my peers.Its not 'their argument', its 'their decision' not to distribute their own creation freely. You choose to decide that doesn't matter of course, because you know better.I just asked a workmate when he last bought music, he can't remember, at least 3 years ago were his words. He used to buy a lot, now he just downloads it all. So that balances out someone like yourself that goes the other way. I wonder what kind of people there are more of?
As for Easy advertising, it isn't about Easy advertising, there argument is that people that download don't buy the product they have downloaded and this is causing them lost revenue. the retort to this is that people that download, on average, spend MORE on products (not just the media, but associated and complimentary offerings) than someone who doesn't download. my case in point - I download an album from a band I haven't heard. I like the Album, I buy it, I buy the T-shirt and when they come to NZ I pay the $80 to go see them. Hell in some cases I have flown over to Aus to see them.
