Approximately 500 people in Stockholm and 200 people in Gothenburg, gathered yesterday for the demonstration against the ongoing witch hunt after millions of young people, the so called pirates of the modern age.Just 48 hours after the raid against The Pirate Bay, the Pirat Partiet (Pirate Party) gained over 2000 new members and is up to a number beyond 5000 members today, and is steadily growing more.
Another denial of service-attack has been directed towards regeringen.se (government), and it's as of now, still down. Media is calling it "Piratkriget" (Pirate War). The laws of a country should be based on what the majority of the population feels is morally right, and the majority in this case is in favour for copying and distributing files over the internet
I don't consider it "stealing", when the original isn't lost, we're simply copying it. It's like taking a picture of a picture and then mass produce it and give it away for free. Although, I'm in favour for laws against earning money on someone else creation.
The music and movie industry wants payback for lost revenues, money that's never existed in the first place. We haven't taken their merchandise away from them, we didn't steal the produced cd-cases with the printed covers on them, they're still there, sitting overly priced on the store shelves, full of contagious Digital Rights Management software.
We don't want you guys to secretly plant hidden backdoors, stealing our cpu power, and installing adware on our computers. We don't want to be forced to play our music through your badly coded players that results in system failures. We want to be able to share with our friends.
What's the difference between me asking some friends over to my house to watch a movie, or sending them each a copy of it so they can watch it from their homes instead? Either way, they'll have watched the movie.
What's the difference from me lending a music cd to my friend, or making a copy of the cd and send it to him instead? Either way, he'll have listened to it.
What's the difference from recording a song from the radio, or download it from the internet? Either way, I would've acquired it.
No money is generated from us copying and spreading digital media, and nothing is actually lost from the companies (their products actually recieve more promotion instead). So where's this magical money coming from that the movie and music companies are suing people for? They're craving money from thin air and ruining young peoples lives by suing them for sums they'll never be able to payback.
Just recently, John G. Malcolm (a deputy assistant attorney at the US Department of Justice), stated that P2P-file sharing is a organized crime, and even went so far to claim that "Organised crime syndicates are frequently engaged in many types of criminal enterprises, including supporting terrorist activities".
When asked for a single case of when this would've happened, he couldn't state any from the top of his head, but "it would surprise me greatly if the number were not large". How nice, now we're even being labeled as terrorists.
Pirates of the intraweb
- We're the pirates of the modern age,
sailing the vast seas of the intraweb. - Now heed this eye-patch wearing teenage,
or you shall fear us with dread. - The bay might have gotten raided,
but for no favor in your vendette. - Bodström was too easily persuaded,
pity hollywoods little marionette. - Guillotinate our head,
and two new ones will grow out instead. - Your minds has grown old and tired,
we would like to see Henrik Pontén retired. - Motion Picture Association of Avarice,
you probably already own the bank. - Beacuse on us you can't gluttonize,
we'll make you all walk the plank. - We're the pirates of the modern age,
sailing the vast seas of the intraweb.
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