YARGH On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 19:22 -0400, Fred Benenson wrote: > http://somalipirate.livejournal.com/3339.html > > > ~ ~ ~ > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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