So, The Pirate Bay’s creators have been fined about £3,000,000 and face a year in jail for their running of a 100% legal website… kinda fucked if you ask me. This dose seem quite political and very messed up but TPB have said they will appeal against this judgment and even if they lose that will never pay the companies the money and I say good on them. Although this is a bit of a blow for the internet piracy world it’s nothing crippling, it’s no more than Napster or Kazaa’s past and if anything events like this have proven to only make the piracy world stronger as more and more people grow to dislike the faceless corporations playing the bad guy in this show of life. If they were smart they’d work with the pirates, find a way to co-exist, seem like the good guys, gain the respect of web dwellers and who knows maybe we’d actually buy their stuff without cursing the fact we get fucked over in the wallet for all their greed.
But anyway, I’m not gonna use this as a soap box to stand on and shout, best of luck to the guys from TPB in their appeal, I hope it works in their favour, the judgment was outstandingly harsh and unfair.
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