Damion Chaplin
03-14-2006, 09:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70358-0.html' target='_blank'>http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70358-0.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Last month, the Motion Picture Association of America announced one of its boldest sorties yet against online piracy: a barrage of seven federal lawsuits against some of the highest-profile BitTorrent sites, Usenet hosts and peer-to-peer services. Among the targets: isoHunt, TorrentSpy and eDonkey. But, as always, one prominent site is missing from the movie industry's announcement, and it happens to be the simplest and best-known source of traded movies -- along with pirated video games, music, software, audio books, television broadcasts and nearly any other form of media imaginable. The site is called The Pirate Bay, and it's operated by a crew of intrepid Swedes who revel in tormenting the content industries."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/tpb.jpg" /> <br /><br />While I would never advocate illegal file-sharing activities, it looks like the Swedes are playing hardball here. I love the fact that they publicly ridicule the cease-and-desist letters they receive. While I don't really agree with their "file sharing is the new library" mentality, I think it's about time someone started standing up to the entertainment industry, don't you? Give the article a read and let me know what you think.