The Pirate Bay, a popular Sweden-based peer-to-peer file sharing network, went on trial in Stockholm. The suit was filed by companies such as Warner Bros., MGM, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox Films, Sony BMG, and several others asking for more than $12 million in damages against four men linked to The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij, and Carl Lundstrom. The companies claim the $12 million is the sum of revenue lost due to The Pirate Bay’s file sharing system, which allows Internet users all over the world to download movies, music, games, and other forms of popular media for free.
The Pirate Bay claims that since no copyrighted information is stored on its servers, it is not responsible for what material its users exchange. The lawyer for the defense, Per Samuelsson, has said that, “File-sharing services can be used both legally and illegally,” so his clients should not be held directly responsible. The prosecution claims that by financing and administrating the site, the four men facilitated in property right infringement. The case is being billed as a landmark copyright test case by many.
The trial is expected to last for several weeks. The accused could face up to two years in jail if convicted.
Many of us might have used P2P to download stuff sometime later...The real question that stands up is that are these guys really the culprit??I mean, it is up to the people to understand what is illegal and vice versa!Till people do not understand this simple thing, piracy won't stop and shall exist in one form or the other...
2 comments:
To me, piracy is when i cut a dvd from a downloaded/copied movie, and the proceed to sell copies of the same on the market for a price.
What sites like PirateBay provide is for ppl to share torrents(movies) but not at a price on the market. No one earns a dime thru all this. I mean isnt it the same as when a person buys a dvd legally, then lends it to a friend for viewing, who in turn copies it to his own hard disk. Ain't that the same form of Piracy that PirateBay is being made to pay for?
Moreover, i wud argue that torrents sharing dont lead to revenue loss for movie producers coz i'm pretty sure most ppl wud definately catch a movie on the big screen rather than download a movie n watch it on their pc. Downloads probably are for ppl who miss movies in the theaters, n still want to watch it. Or even ppl who need a copy of a nice movie for repeated viewing, after having seen a movie on the big screen/TV.
Praveen you are wrong on definition of piracy ..
Piracy means you get the things like music or movie without paying those guys for thr hard work.
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