Rob Mason wrote: > I would like to draw attention to the fact that The Pirate Bay is > called "The /Pirate/ Bay". It is pretty clear that its primary > intention is to facilitate software piracy. Does it have incidental > uses that are not for copyright infringement? Sure. But are we really > arguing that a website with the word "pirate" in its name wasn't > intending to aid people in piracy?
Piracy is the act of attacking ships. If you're talking about unauthorized copying, there is a difference between individual unauthorized copying for personal use and the commercial widescale copying for profit. I don't think there's anything to suggest that the pirate bay operators actually made money from what they've done, in fact I'm sure they've made a loss -- operating servers, maintaining them, etc costs money. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
