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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.
>
>
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