21 April 2009

Pirate Bay fined and imprisoned (appeal pending)

Nic Suzor has a nice summary of the brouhaha here.

Duncan Bucknell and the Inquisitr (lid dip Denise Howell on twitter) wonder about the ramifications for Google, MSN, Yahoo etc.

The IPKat recommends Andrew Logie on what should be done now.

Andrew Logie’s point:

The reason people use TPB is that you can get content fast, free and with hardly any effort. Take ABC’s popular series ‘Lost’. If you lived in the US you could either watch or record the series on television or watch it online on ABC’s website. However, here in the UK, you could be waiting 6 months to a year to see that same episode on television, and even longer still to buy it on DVD, and if you think you can watch it online on ABC’s website, forget it: licensing restrictions will block UK internet users.

You do have another option: piracy. ….

resonates with the absurdity Kwanghui Lim identified – he can parallel import the printed books from Amazon, but Amazon won’t sell him the audio files – because of licensing restricti0ns.

Meanwhile, the (unrelated) Swedish Pirate Party organised hundreds of demonstrators to protest the decision in various parts of Sweden, according to Louise Nordstrom.

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