Pirate Bay Trial
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- kelpie0
^ well that seems right and fair legally, as they don't provide ripping tools, just a network to distribute ripped goods.
This culture is giving the majors license to resist attempts to update to a model which in some ways may cost them, but will provide a much better 100% digital service that people want these days. That's what gets my goat about places like the pirate bay.
A pal of mine was helping project manage that legal P2P thing that Virgin was going to do and it was kiboshed due to protectionism on the part of the labels, but they are able to take this in-a-corner stance because piracy gives them justification. Unfortunately for them, that stance will eventually see them fuck up massively and only get on the bandwagon once others have come in with new models and cemented their ground there. I'm not sorry about that, at the very least some clever forward thinking people will be selling things to desperate record labels for a lot of money soon, and more power to them (mike ;)