The Pirate Bay IP Addresses Point To Prosecution Lawyers
from the funny-stuff dept
In a somewhat amusing joke, it looks like the folks behind The Pirate Bay have had their latest IPs listed as being controlled by the law firms involved in the prosecution against them. Some thought that somehow the law firms had taken control over the IP addresses, but it appears to be much more of a joke by The Pirate Bay folks, showing the prosecutors how IP info isn't universal truth. However, the timing of this little prank may have been a bit off, as The Pirate Bay site has been experiencing some downtime due to ISP issues totally unrelated to the IP addresses or to the trial (though, it didn't stop someone from emailing me that The Pirate Bay had been down for all of three minutes and something must be wrong!!!).Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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TPD down for 3 minutes
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I don't know about TDR, but busting lying shills definitely helps me sleep better at night. :)
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as opposed to stealing crap for payment?
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Too lazy to pay for it? You're exactly right! If you make it easier to pay, you'll get way more people who will.
Too cheap to pay for it? If no one wants to buy your product at the price you offer it, you lower your price to what they will buy it for. Unfortuantely as has already been stated, that price, in a healthy market, should become zero.
So, as soon as they sell music easily at the price of zero, people will stop pirating.
..oh wait...!
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So who's stealing anything?
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seems kind of stupid to me.
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In other news...
Peter Danowsky, the lawyer who represented IFPI in the Pirate Bay trial, calls the decision "astonishing".
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'Tard
Yeah because no one would ever PAY for digital music, not even if you wrapped it in an easy to use interface and had thousands of songs available.
Wait...whats that? iTunes? Oh....right...
F*cktw*at.
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