Things dont look good for piratebay

[Trev]

Lastly, to all you ********who gave me *NEGATIVE* rep for and I'm quoting one of you

Anyone that wants to subtract reputation points because they disagree with someone's point of view, they can subtract from me. (How do you do that, by the way? I only see an add button.) I don't care one bit for the little counters next to my name.

EDIT: Also, there's nothing special about TPB. Everyone's pointed out and knows that you can find whatever you want using a search engine like Google, which fortunately, has an overwhelmingly legitimate purpose. I do find it funny, though, when companies cross borders to sue in other countries. Treaties exist, but notions re: property undoubtedly differ, despite the legal definitions, and companies run the risk of losing millions of customers as a result of cultural differences. That will certainly cost them more in the long run.

[Trev]

If Playboy's images were the least bit exciting to look at, they wouldn't need to publish them alongside written text. Larry Flynt learned that long ago. (I know, Hugh is selling a lifestyle. Whatever.)

The only thing the Pirate Bay lawsuit has accomplished is the possible incarceration of several smartasses and the mobilization of a generation that has different notions with regard to intellectual property. Copyrights are not set in stone. They're sufferred to continue by the will of the people, whether you live in a free society or not. Art will survive with or without copyrights. Like everything else, the media industry must reinvent itself as a customer-centric service industry to survive. Artists that are in it for the money must do the same.