Things dont look good for piratebay

[hooligan]

They deserve one year of can for not having ratios at TPB

[hooligan]

So are Monopolies, but Microsoft is still around

In what way is Microsoft a monopoly? People can install any OS they want, you don't have to use Windows. You also have a choice to buy any other console than Microsoft's. Its not Microsoft's fault their competition has nothing better to offer.

[hooligan]

Fransexy_ wrote:

hooligan wrote:
Its not Microsoft's fault their competition has nothing better to offer.

Or you are jocking or you are a complete ignorant  :-?

Given these two options, Ignorant then, I suppose

[hooligan]

If you don't like MS or eBay, simply don't use them, right?

My thoughts exactly. It's not like we're short of options, there's plenty to choose from.

[hooligan]

TPB is just a search engine, what's available through it is up to its users. One of the site's admins has made a research and found that 70%-80% out of 1000 seeds are legal stuff: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/02/pirate-bay-survey-says-that-80-of-our-torrents-are-legal.ars.

I find that very hard to believe. Just see the TOP-100 lists.. wheres the legal stuff then?

[hooligan]

TPB isn't just a search engine. TPB also hosts the .torrent files and provides a tracker.

This is good point which some people tend to forget when comparing TPB to Google.

By the way do you guys guess what strikes me as funny..the fact that for so many years TPB admins have BRAGGED how they can do whatever they want, uphold the largest piracy center in the world and no-one can't stop them. And suddenly when they are facing penalties their counterargument is that its all been a big misunderstanding and a large portion of TPB is legal :-)

Sorry fellas, can't have it both ways.

[hooligan]

With support from the Swedish people (as seen with the 7.9% percent vote according to polls for the Piracy Party in European parliament election) and maybe soon having other mature democracies follow their lead (USA?), the future looks good for TPB in my opinion. It is high time to end the dark ages regarding copyright and patents (as I hope these times will be referred to in the future).

About the Piracy party, Finland will have its own section soon: Read about it here