Posted on April 17th, 2009 - 2:54 pm - 5 comments
The Pirate Bay people was found guilty. What next? No more digital rights? Worry not! The solution is pretty simple:
Although TBP is still going to exist (and thanks to all the publicity, maybe it’ll expand its userbase?), there’s now room to add another torrent-indexing site: Google.
Yes, you read correctly. Google. The big search enginge that indexes all sites in the world in a jiff (or whatever). “How?” You may ask, and I’ll reply with this:
+filetype:torrent” (like this: “X-men 3+filetype:torrent”), then hit SearchTwo-part answer. All Google does, as what The Pirate Bay does, is to index pages. It does not contain any illegal files, because torrent-files ain’t illegal. It’s not illegal to own torrent-files.
It is, however, illegal to download movies/music/whatever if you don’t own the rights. Then again, if you’ve already bought the movie, you do own a licence of it. Right?
This post was only written to prove that Google does the same thing as The Pirate Bay (or vice versa). It is my little objection against the Spectrial’s outcome so far.
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Nobody special:
One small correction. Your claim that it is “illegal to download movies/music/whatever” is a testament to just how powerful the MediaMafia’s flood of FUD has been. It’s uploading and making available (sharing with others) that is more likely to be prosecuted. As a side note, my biggest gripe with TPB is that they feed the “Downloading = Piracy (i.e.: stealing)” nonsense.
Equating file sharers with pirates by the content industry is pathetic. File sharers willingly accepting that label is pure foolishness, IMO.
#1: April 17th, 2009 - 5:49 pm
koew:
Very nice, Nobody special! And yes, it’s not illegal to download music/movies, if they’re not licenced. Thank’s for the comment, and I stand corrected.
#2: April 17th, 2009 - 7:54 pm
Sigg3:
You must be corrected again, I’m afraid. It is legal to download music/movies depending on WHAT license they are under. Not if they are not licensed. Not licensed = public domain, which also has specifications though little if any requirements. Then you have CC which has all sorts of ways to share under a free or less free license.
If you have bought a movie (on a DVD) you only have a license to see the movie ON THAT DVD and IN A SPECIFIC SETTING. You may not see the same movie in a prison, public space, shop window for example, or any other place than what the user license specifies, so why do you think you have a license to download it? You don’t. You don’t even have the right to copy the DVD to your hard disk drive in most countries, though DVD Jon made it legal in many European countries.
Nobody Special, I think you know just as well as I, that the “Pirate Bay” name is an ironic JOKE running on the exact nonsense you’re pointing out. What can I say? It’s Scandinavian humor:)
#3: April 20th, 2009 - 11:39 am
koew:
Gotta be corrected all the way, I think. Piracy and it’s rights ‘n shit ain’t exactly my closest interests. I believe I want my Battlestar Galactica (and now, Caprica) when it’s released in the US. Either way, I’ll buy the DVDs when they’re released (only need season four of BSG).
Shit, what I wanted to point out was: TPB is just indexing. Like Google, but not in such a gargantuan manner. I guess I got too tangled up in the rights bit and got confused.
#4: April 20th, 2009 - 11:56 am