Heres a rencent DVD drive burner set up, found by police at a recent Australian DVD piracy set up. I want this so bad
Im sorry, I'm not up to date on the whole torrent thing.... But what exactly are The Pirate Bay and people fighting for ?? Surely they are just as bad....??
They are fighting for the rights of the consumer not to pay overinflated prices and to freely share information, the very purpose for which the world wide web was conceived.
I'm not sure I agree with all aspects of this free information movement... Someone who has worked months or years on a CD/Game etc. deserves to be paid for it... The route they should be taking is not making these available for free. If they don't want to pay overinflated prices they should charge for their torrents and pay royalties to the developer/artist etc. This would get rid of the dependence on large publishers who hike up the prices..
some of the problem is also the lack of a good trial demo that people can play for free, this is usually why torrents and such are free.
actually, EA are going along this path with their new battlefield game - making it free, funded by adverts and micropayments (buy stuff in game) now, usually i hate EA but this new tactic is actually pretty interesting
That's one hell of an operation... :-X Almost all software (>90%) in my country is illegal. The cost of an original Windows XP OS is around 3 times the average monthly income. When you put it that way, it makes sense if people pirate software/media.
Yeah EA's tactic is nice. Though, it's already been in use in games like "o2jam" per se. You can play the game for free OR you buy points for bonuses...
I think Pirate Bay are fighting for the sake of fighting. In most countries around the world, what pirate bay does is in an greyer area of the law. They are fighting for pirace, its just that with their local law being the way it is, its easier just to claim free exchange of ideas.
Actually, in most countries (Including the US, despite what the RIAA, MPAA et al want you to think) what the pirate bay does is 100% completely and utterly legal. If you give strangers a map to the nearest bank, and they subsequently go and rob it, are you guilty of a crime? No. This is analogous to what the Pirate Bay does. They give you a file (a torrent) which contains a hash and a tracker address. The hash could be any number of different things, and there is no data on the tracker at all. There is nothing illegal or even shady about torrents and torrent trackers. What may be illegal is the use that people put said facilities to; which has nothing to do with the Pirate Bay, it is to do with their users.
According to EU law, as a site owner, you are responsible for what goes on on you site. So technically, they are responsible for the piracy that happens on the site. Also I wasn't debating the legality of torrents themselves, as much as the legality of what pirate bay openly allows to happen on their site.
The Pirate Bay couldn't care less, sure it gives them a bad rep, but they follow Swedish laws, and to quote the man himself "Sweden is not a state in America"
if theres nothing illegal about torrent sites and there trackers, where has the best torrent site on the web gone......DEMONOID???????????????? :'(
Demonoid succumbed to legal pressure because they didn't want to take up the fight which would have been expensive. But a tracker in it self is not illegal as long as you respond to DMCA/Equal bill in your country statements and remove the copyrighted data; unless of course you live in Sweden.
