The judicial proceeding is going in Stockholm above the Pirate Bay, the biggest filesharing service in Internet. It is not judging of Pirate Bay, it is judging of the whole Internet.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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3 years 13 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago
The Pirate Bay shares files
The Pirate Bay shares files as much as web hosts share files: technically speaking, files are shared over the Internet and these entities are involved within that process. Apart from various documents, the Pirate Bay shares one type of file: pointers to bittorrent file swarms.
The point I'm trying to make is that the Pirate Bay doesn't directly infringe on copyright as they don't share anything other than: pointers to people that share files. The Pirate Bay team aren't unauthorised file sharers because they aren't doing any unauthorised sharing!! The Pirate Bay is being taken to court on the grounds that they feature (or otherwise distribute) torrent links. This is like being charged for selling illicit drugs when all you've done is make a sign that points to someone that sells illicit drugs.
The decisions of this case would have large repercussions for Internet freedom worldwide as it could be used as precedent for the entertainment industry to bend society to its will.
stargrave
3 years 13 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago
Re: The Pirate Bay shares files
Yes, I fully agree with everything you say! But, let's look: entertainment industry "losses" millions of dollars and they know that it is because of (in current point of view) BitTorrent network. They just simply can not punish users as it is very difficult, and the only target of punishment is of course Pirate Bay. Afair Pirate Bay was raided twice by police. And in both of them court of course could not do anything against Bay. Again... it is poor EI.
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