> Further, the admin do extensive "cleaning" of torrents they deem inapproriate (for example files put in the wrong section), but never clean up copyright infringing files.
I can tell that a movie is, for example, a RomCom by looking at it. How do I know a given copy of a specific 50 Cent video is a copyright infringement?
I mention 50 cent because I understand that various artists have released independently produced videos for general distribution. In addition, labels have done the same thing.
Yeah, because TPB believes that all of its torrents are potentially legitimate (50 cent has released videos for general distribution after all). I'm sure if they were ever notified by rights holders that they were hosting a torrent that was aiding in the infringement of protected works, they would surely "clean" it up. After all, I can tell that a movie is, for example, infringing by looking at a takedown notification.
Classy. Surely they were acting in good faith by defying notification since it referenced US instead of Swedish law. As we all know, the appeals process has just proven "no Swedish law is being violated." It is certainly appropriate for TPB to tell the rights holder to "Go fuck yourself." How dare the rights holder demand that TPB not aid in the piracy of their work while TPB, not the work's creators or investors, profit off it.
</sarcasm> It is beyond me how prevalent the opinion is on HN that this court ruling is corrupt. I don't claim to know every relevant detail of this case or Sweedish law, but IMHO, what TPB currently does SHOULD be illegal. However, it seems to me that this is the minority opinion here.
Well, when someone e-mails you, telling "transformers 3", in your film category, is in fact transformers 3, and ask you to take it down, you could do so.
Instead thepiratebay tended to just laugh, and insult people who sent them letters, claiming what they were doing was perfectly legal. It turns out, it appears, that they were wrong.
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> Further, the admin do extensive "cleaning" of torrents they deem inapproriate (for example files put in the wrong section), but never clean up copyright infringing files.
I can tell that a movie is, for example, a RomCom by looking at it. How do I know a given copy of a specific 50 Cent video is a copyright infringement?
I mention 50 cent because I understand that various artists have released independently produced videos for general distribution. In addition, labels have done the same thing.
Yeah, because TPB believes that all of its torrents are potentially legitimate (50 cent has released videos for general distribution after all). I'm sure if they were ever notified by rights holders that they were hosting a torrent that was aiding in the infringement of protected works, they would surely "clean" it up. After all, I can tell that a movie is, for example, infringing by looking at a takedown notification.
Wait a minute. Now that I think about it, TBP is pretty famous for posting takedown notifications: http://static.thepiratebay.se/dreamworks_response.txt
Classy. Surely they were acting in good faith by defying notification since it referenced US instead of Swedish law. As we all know, the appeals process has just proven "no Swedish law is being violated." It is certainly appropriate for TPB to tell the rights holder to "Go fuck yourself." How dare the rights holder demand that TPB not aid in the piracy of their work while TPB, not the work's creators or investors, profit off it.
</sarcasm> It is beyond me how prevalent the opinion is on HN that this court ruling is corrupt. I don't claim to know every relevant detail of this case or Sweedish law, but IMHO, what TPB currently does SHOULD be illegal. However, it seems to me that this is the minority opinion here.
Well, when someone e-mails you, telling "transformers 3", in your film category, is in fact transformers 3, and ask you to take it down, you could do so.
Instead thepiratebay tended to just laugh, and insult people who sent them letters, claiming what they were doing was perfectly legal. It turns out, it appears, that they were wrong.