 P NessYou'Ve Forgotten 9-11 AlreadyPremium
join:2001-08-29
way way out | if you can't beat them, buy them out...and then... Drive everyone away
silly media companies could have done this a year ago and saved a crap ton of money.
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| I'll bet the Pirate Bay team that sold out decided to cash in before their sentences came down in court. They can cash in, clear out, and then ignore the court decision. |
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well, in the beginning they had "principles"
then gradually they got taste of the cash
so when price+time was right....
MONEY
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said by fAcEtIOUs:I'll bet the Pirate Bay team that sold out decided to cash in before their sentences came down in court. They can cash in, clear out, and then ignore the court decision. I'll bet someone hasn't been reading up the past few months and missed the part where they were sentenced to jail time and fined out the ass. |
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| said by PapaMidnight:said by fAcEtIOUs:I'll bet the Pirate Bay team that sold out decided to cash in before their sentences came down in court. They can cash in, clear out, and then ignore the court decision. I'll bet someone hasn't been reading up the past few months and missed the part where they were sentenced to jail time and fined out the ass. The court appeals will be ongoing for months at a minimum. Still plenty of time to clear out.
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | reply to phyrat buy
Surely you aren't suggesting that the TPB owners aren't altruistic in their ways and beliefs about ripping off the evil media conglomerates to free content for everyday joe schmoes and that their motives really are about money? Money is a powerful motivator whether you're a couple guys helping to unlawfully redistribute copyrighted works or your the copyright owners attempting to maintain control of those copyrighted works. |
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said by fAcEtIOUs:said by PapaMidnight:said by fAcEtIOUs:I'll bet the Pirate Bay team that sold out decided to cash in before their sentences came down in court. They can cash in, clear out, and then ignore the court decision. I'll bet someone hasn't been reading up the past few months and missed the part where they were sentenced to jail time and fined out the ass. The court appeals will be ongoing for months at a minimum. Still plenty of time to clear out. You mean the appeal they were denied?
»feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstech···ased.ars |
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| You mean you don't know the difference between a retrial and an appeal? The appeal hasn't even occurred yet. Your link referenced a retrial. |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | reply to P Ness
I suspect the loss in court and the jail time and heavy fine made them take this route. |
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | reply to P Ness
said by P Ness:Drive everyone away silly media companies could have done this a year ago and saved a crap ton of money. lol its been YEARS and the media companies STILL DON'T GET IT!
We don't want DRM, low encode rates, proprietary players and advertising!
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at any price the quality of pirated stuff is just plain better than what the media companies are spewing.
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They did it wrong. They should have followed the example of the big boys and formed a company—making sure that the legal liability is tied to it rather than them. Then when trouble is on the horizon, resign from the company—dissolving it in the process, leaving no entity to sue—and walk away, free as a bird. |
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actually, for clarity, you seem to be missing some facts, the conviction "appeal" was NOT "Denied" the media in its need for headlines got it and reported it wrong....
»torrentfreak.com/media-misreport···-090613/
"Media Misreports on Biased Pirate Bay Judge
Written by Ernesto on June 13, 2009
Three judges are currently reviewing the judge that handled the Pirate Bay trial to discover if he was biased or not.
No decision has yet been made but the New York Times and several other publications report inaccuracies and plain wrongs that claim otherwise. Time to get the facts straight.
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"Earlier this week the District Court of Stockholm handed in their statement to the Appeal Court, arguing that they don’t believe that Norström was biased. This was not really a surprise since they appointed him and admitting that he is biased would be admitting to having made a mistake before the “bias case” is reviewed.
However, many publications mistakenly concluded from this statement that a ruling was made on the bias issue, or even worse.
“The four men convicted for operating file-sharing site the Pirate Bay suffered a further setback this week when they failed to get the case thrown out because of alleged bias by the sentencing judge,” the Hollywood reporter wrote.
This was picked up and twisted even further by none other than The New York Times who reported: “A Swedish court has denied the appeal of four men convicted of violating copyright law for their involvement in the Pirate Bay.”
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"The biggest challenge for the media on the other hand, is to get their facts straight instead of writing up nonsense. Props to our friend David Kravets at Wired who was one of the few who got it right. »www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/0···nbiased/
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