Pirate Bay trial verdict reached: guilty!

they will never, ever stop us from getting our music for free.

Pirating has been around since bulletin board systems, and was made even larger by Internet relay chat... One site won't even put a dent in it. It's like trying to control cannabis by busting a guy who sells dime bags out of a high school locker. You shut down torrents some other system will be devised, this will only fuel the fire and make it even harder for them to control... After all it's just 1's and 0's anyone can affect the face of the Internet and Internet piracy

im so not worried - it will be business as usual for me :)

Just keep doing it, they can't bring us all into court.

They're a dinosaur industry, each lawsuit they bring out is just another meteor wiping them out.

They can't afford this, they're just too stubborn and greedy to change.

"Yesterday, the IPRED era was ushered in for Swedes, and an incredible 33% drop in Internet traffic followed."

"One day after IPRED came into force, data from the Netnod Internet Exchange shows a drop of 30% in Swedish Internet traffic."

http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-law-causes-drop-in-swedish-internet-traffic-...

http://www.ipred.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPRED
Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive
This thing is a joke.

Copyright holders want to force your isp to hand over info on ip addresses they accuse of infringement.

This will not stop tpb, but it isn't looking good for the rest of us...

Who decided a cd was even worth $17?

I think music artists have the wrong idea... they should release the songs on albums for much cheaper than they do.. and if they are released on torrents.. then they should let it spread... it's advertising...

i would rather write and perform an amazing song and get my money via 3rd party sponsorships... im pretty sure that would get them way more money anyway..

when i was told this info in school by a teacher
i was upset

and i find it a little harsh that they were sentence to a year in jail and have to pay $4 mill

Raise the sails! Scrub the Deck, All hands on deck!!......sorry, someone had to do it.

I actually by CDS! some people these days hardly know what CDs are! Hand them an ATrack & they freak out!

LONG LIVE TPB! YARRRR!

So Piratebay will disappear?

Will this actually "solve" anything in the long run? Did suing Napster stop people from downloading music? Won't some other website pop up in it's place?

How long will we go through these pointless trials before people accept that digital free information is the norm and the way of the future?

Time for Newsgroups. Alt.Binaries FTW

Dear, RIAA etc,
Currently you get some of my disposable income, that situation is now over. I'm leaving you, I've had enough of your paranoia and aggressive behaviour.
It's not me it's you.

have a nice life,
Seán

Wow one year in jail and a four million dollar fine! Sucks to be them for realz. They can't be held responsible. They don't host the actual files.

What is next, sue Google for someone emailing an illegal serial number or zipped unlicensed program? Think about it...

FUUUUUUCK.
I actually cried. The Pirate Bay is going to appeal until they get vindication, but this is definitely a setback.

im starting to wonder if im the only one who doesnt do torrents....?

I hope The Pirate Bay doesn't go down though. Hopefully they arranged for someone to take care of it while they're in jail.

Well this definitely wont mean the end of file-sharing. (duh)

But the end of TPB?
maybe.

i hope not though

edit:

i just had a thought!

TPB doesnt actually host any files, it only provides the link to where the filies can be found.
So in essence, it is not unlike a search engine. Could one not compare it to Google?

So following this same line of thought, wouldn't it be absurd if a court sued google for the content its users searched?

What if a user (and this is completely hypothetical, of course) used google to search the term, "how to make a bomb" or, "how to carry out a perfect murder"

Surely you wouldn't hold google responsible. So how could TPB be held responsible for the actions of its users?

I use BTJunkie and Isohunt, anyway. Still sucks though, The Pirate Bay was pretty cool.

damn...TPB was the best

THAT'LL TEACH YOU, YOU DIRTY SOMALIAN BASTARDS.

i wanted to know what the verdict was but there were 0 seeders and 7 leechers...

Here's a useful FAQ from the Guardian that explains what the trial was about, who is behind The Pirate Bay and what the ruling means for the future of the site.

There was a site back in 2003 called Supernova, basically the same thing happened and resulted in the launch of many other torrent sites including the Pirate Bay. Similarly, Napster's case resulted in the offshoots of Imesh, Soulfire and Limewire among others.
It's a cyclical process, the end of the Pirate Bay won't mark the end of pirating no more so than "Don't Copy That Floppy" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xfqkdh5Js4) could have stopped illegal copies of games or software.

I'm quite suprised by the outcome of this case, particularly seeing as the Pirate Bay guys were so overly confident about winning. I think the decision will have quite a lot of repercussions.

CAN ANYONE SEED ME THE COURT VIDEO PLZ...thanks LMFAO

As much as this is a big decision and means possibly the beginning of the end for public downloading via BitTorrent, it's not gonna make as sizable impact on piracy as everyone (read: mass media) hopes.

The people who want to pirate stuff, will still pirate it, they'll just be hosting them on private trackers, where their bandwidth isn't being monitored, and they're pretty much anonymous (due to encryption) plus, they'll be getting *much* faster download speeds.

This bunch of arrests is like chipping a small rock off a mountain, there's still soooo much piracy out there.

Arrggh!

One of the defendants, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, admitted on Twitter that Pirate Bay had lost its case.

"Stay calm – nothing will happen to TPB, us personally or filesharing what so ever. This is just a theatre for the media," he said.

"Really, it's a bit LOL. It used to be only movies, now even verdicts are out before the official release."

If you download from public torrent sites then this decision is possibly going to hurt. However, public torrent sites are normally the last to seed the media, its not going to effect piracy as a whole.

Private sites ftw.