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~ ~ ~ thoughts / http://fredbenenson.com/blog work / http://creativecommons.org sights / http://flickr.com/fcb sounds / http://www.last.fm/user/mecredis status / http://twitter.com/mecredis On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Matt Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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