August 16, 2006
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Argggggggh.
pirate walks into a bar,
bartender says ” is that a steering wheel in your pants?”
Pirate says ” Arrrrrrrrrrr its drivin me nuts!”I just hate the fact people act like these corporations are honest and they care
about their customers.
These corporations are bigger pirates than those who
download music off p2p.
Look at our US. They milk us every week out of our
check and we can’t say shit about it.My list
The True Pirate with licenses:
1. IRS
2.MPAA
3.RIAAon May 31, Swedish police finally arrived with a search warrant and
carted off enough servers to fill three rental trucks, the
entertainment industry was quick to proclaim victory. The Motion
Picture Association of America issued a press release announcing a
milestone. “The actions today taken in Sweden serve as a reminder to
pirates all over the world that there are no safe harbors for internet
copyright thieves,” trumpeted MPAA chairman Dan Glickman.But the three stewards of the site — 27-year-old Peter; Fredrik
Neij, 28; and Gottfrid Svartholm, 21 — were already preparing their
response.Coordinating with volunteers around the world in an IRC chat room,
the trio scrambled to relaunch the Bay at a new location. Peter — a
slim, dark haired, dark eyed geek — didn’t sleep in those first few
days, fielding a stream of phone calls from the press while confronting
the technical challenge of resurrecting a high-traffic site with a
partial database and all-new hardware. “They stole most of our backups
as well,” he says. “I managed to get some backups out of the servers
while the police were in the building.” (Peter wasn’t arrested with the
others, and remains anonymous.)They took the reconstructed data to temporary hosting in the
Netherlands, and three days after the raid, the Pirate Bay reappeared
on the internet.So fast was the Bay’s rebound that some news articles reporting the
site’s demise went to print after it was back up, recalls Peter. The
resuscitated site had a few glitches, but the resurrection was
remarkable in that it had never really happened before; when the major
American rights holders take a website down, it stays down. The pirates
delivered a victory message to the MPAA, and the Swedish equivalent,
APB, through the site’s reverse-DNS, which now read:
hey.mpaa.and.apb.bite.my.shiny.metal.ass.thepiratebay.org.Thanks to the press generated by the raid, the Pirate Bay instantly
became more popular than ever. The Bay’s T-shirt vendor alone now has
four people working full time to fill orders for apparel sporting the
site’s pirate ship logo, and a skull-and-crossbones with a cassette
tape as the skull. “They are behind something like 2,000,” says Neij.
“They are working day and night.”The pirates have since moved the Bay’s hosting back to Sweden, where
they’ve built technological bulwarks against another takedown,
law-hardening the Bay’s network architecture with a system of redundant
servers that spans three nations. Shutting down the site in any single
country will only cripple the Pirate Bay for as long as it takes for
its fail-over scripts to execute, a gap measurable in minutes.The various servers’ locations are obscured behind a load balancer
configured to lie, the crew says. Once the failsafe is triggered, a
determined adversary with an international team of litigators might be
able to track down the servers, but by that time — according to the
plan — the pirates will have deployed mirrors in even more countries.
In theory, the corporate lawyers will eventually tire of this game of
international copyright Whack-A-Mole.With all that in place, crew member Fredrik Neij says he welcomes
the possibility of another raid. “I really want the pleasure of it
being down three minutes, then up again.”Source Here.
Source Here.
Suppose the company comes to your house and watches you use the toaster
you bought at walmart. And when you put a bagel in it they sue you for
using the toaster to toast a bagel, because the agreement on the side
of the box (which you didn’t sign or read) says that the toaster is
only licensed by the manufacturer to toast white bread.Then they sue you for $5000 dollars, claiming that they need to be
compensated not just for the bagel you toasted, but for the bagels you
probably toasted when they weren’t there to watch you. Do you consider
this fair? You are violating the terms of toaster use, therefore using
your criteria you are acting in an immoral way.What if Sealy sued people for sleeping on couches? Can Ford sue you if
you squeeze 8 people in a car that only seats 6? (instead of buying
another car)If you take a picture of the Eiffel tower from the street, can France
sue you for selling copies of that picture? Sue you for giving copies
of the picture to friends?What if I hear a song on the radio, and then I get out my guitar and
play that song into a microphone and listen to it from time to time. If
I don’t distribute copies of my recording, can the record company sue
me? Is keeping a copy of me singing a song ok?What if I hear a song on the radio and record it onto a tape. Is that illegal? Should I be jailed or fined for this?
What if I’m really really smart, and I hear a song, and I type 1′s and
0′s into a computer, purely from memory, and those 1′s and 0′s combine
to make a file which can be played and sounds exactly like the song I
heard, but isn’t a recording since I recreated it from scratch? Could I
give away copies of this file that I typed in in binary based on
nothing but memory?What if I just borrow a friends CD and listen to it until I’m sick of it and give it back? Is that moral?
What if I borrow a friends CD and make a copy, listen to the copy until
I’m sick of it, then break the copy in half and return the original
disk?What if I borrow the cd and make a copy, then return the original a few minutes before I break the copy in half?
What If instead of breaking the copy in half, I return the copy and break the original?
Suppose I never break the copy, but I never listen to it again?
Suppose I only listen to the copy when I know for a fact my friend
isn’t listening to the original, so that I save gas by not driving over
to his house to borrow the CD?What if we both listen to the cd so that we both are listening for 1 overlapping second? Is this now immoral?
Suppose a friend and I make a copy of his CD, and agree that we will
only listen to the same song at the same time while we are in the same
room, but using separate headphones so we don’t disturb anyone?What if we get out of sync and we end up accidently listening to totally different songs?
What if I just make a copy of the CD and listen to it how I feel like
and people who buy in to big corporate bullshit about owning sounds or
data kiss my ass?**************************************************
I think the reality here is that “law” is of two kinds. There is
natural law, i.e. don’t murder, steal, etc. which nearly all of us
respect. And there is political law i.e. anything the lawmakers’ and
their owners want to be a law.There are people in jail today for not filing income tax returns who
claimed that the constitution protects them from testifying against
themselves. Sounds logical to me.Well, the judges have dispensed with that logic and will do so in this
case as well. Point being, don’t apply logic to political law, because
it’s completely irrelevent.Source Here
