The Pirate Bay's Open Letter To All

Their are other sources...

My thoughts exactly! I'll be seeding more to stir up the pot.

haha

Yeah I seed less with my laptop.. I'll be seeding more now!

The Pirate Bay is a search engine, just like Google..

That doesn't work since The Pirate Bay hosts the torrent keys. Not that it matters since Google has taken action to remove search results to illegal sites like Child Pornography and such under fear of a lawsuit. So while there is no legal precedent over search engines and access to illegal items, its not to say that one can get away with it by saying that they are a search engine.

"EU directive 2000/31/EC says that he who provides an information service is not responsible for the information that is being transferred. In order to be responsible, the service provider must initiate the transfer. But the admins of The Pirate Bay don’t initiate transfers. It’s the users that do and they are physically identifiable people. They call themselves names like King Kong... According to legal procedure, the accusations must be against an individual and there must be a close tie between the perpetrators of a crime and those who are assisting. This tie has not been shown. The prosecutor must show that Carl Lundström personally has interacted with the user King Kong, who may very well be found in the jungles of Cambodia..."

From the defense attorney Per Samuelson on day 3 of the trial.

Well, one strategy they can use is the fact that no one has claimed copyright to the pirated material. The material is only pirated to share. No profits are being made off of piracy. Not through torrent trackers, at least.

To say that piracy is causing the downfall of the music industry, one must realize that the real downfall is the music industry's unwillingness to adapt to a more social and shared industry, to which they can market their music through free samples, i.e., entire albums encoded in low bitrates, like 60-80kbps MP3s. That way, a user has an idea of how the album sounds. However, what they have is of poor quality, so it will incline them to either: Pirate the material, or download it legally, with a very convenient link provided by either the artist or the record label, that the user can follow to legally purchase the music. Thus, supporting the record labels and the artists.

The music Industry has gotten to big and its their unwillingness to change that is costing them money. As for the movie industry sites like IMDb and Slingbox now host Hulu movies.