One thing I find interesting in all of this is that while Torrent sites claim they don't host files, and many of them don't. They claim that google does the same thing they do. But that's not really true.
If you google 'gears of war 2 torrent' for example it's not going to actually link you to a tracker. It links you to websites hosting trackers. So if torrent sites weren't around google wouldn't be able to crawl them and find trackers.
So while TPB can say google is just as guilty that's not exactly true.
Go back a few years, did Napster host the content? No, they lost, then other sites emerge. In fact, calling your site the Pirate Bay is simply a direct middle finger to the content owners. If the Pirate Bay gets shut down, another challenger will emerge, perhaps with a new technology, a new way of sharing content, all the courts and lawyers in the world can't stop it.
Do I participate in file sharing. No, to be totally honest I don't (I dabbled a little in Napster years ago, RIAA I swear I deleted that content!) Since then, I see the fault in it, its fundamentally wrong, its theft. My step son had a limewire account, and now he wonders why it won't work, hmmmmm..... Perhaps it had something to do with the old man (It was hoggin the bandwidth I use for fraggin)
Anyway, while I think the folks at the Pirate Bay do have a point from a certain legal perspective, but its not like Google is blatantly suggesting that you use its service to pirate content, while the Pirate Bay does not leave much to the imagination. Sometimes its not what you say, but how you say it?
Still what the courts and lawyers need to come to grip with is they will never, ever stop it.
In music specifically, there are allot of well to do executives and promoters that are going to be displaced soon. Honestly, if artists knew what was good for them, they would unionize and rebel against their record companies and Clear Chanel, and market their content on their own. Maybe earn less total revenue, but keep all the profits for themselves. This idea of needing someone else to promote your talents in the age of the internet, its long gone. Promote yourself, keep what you earn.
Change the business model, embrace the internet, embrace some form of fair use content sharing, and for the love of god, stop clinging to your antiquated business model because there will be a lessened need for executives and agents to pillage the talents of the entertainment industry.
Thrax
🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
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Typo? Or am I crazy? That should read 'does not host', yes?
Feel free to delete this post either way.
If you google 'gears of war 2 torrent' for example it's not going to actually link you to a tracker. It links you to websites hosting trackers. So if torrent sites weren't around google wouldn't be able to crawl them and find trackers.
So while TPB can say google is just as guilty that's not exactly true.
Do I participate in file sharing. No, to be totally honest I don't (I dabbled a little in Napster years ago, RIAA I swear I deleted that content!) Since then, I see the fault in it, its fundamentally wrong, its theft. My step son had a limewire account, and now he wonders why it won't work, hmmmmm..... Perhaps it had something to do with the old man (It was hoggin the bandwidth I use for fraggin)
Anyway, while I think the folks at the Pirate Bay do have a point from a certain legal perspective, but its not like Google is blatantly suggesting that you use its service to pirate content, while the Pirate Bay does not leave much to the imagination. Sometimes its not what you say, but how you say it?
Still what the courts and lawyers need to come to grip with is they will never, ever stop it.
In music specifically, there are allot of well to do executives and promoters that are going to be displaced soon. Honestly, if artists knew what was good for them, they would unionize and rebel against their record companies and Clear Chanel, and market their content on their own. Maybe earn less total revenue, but keep all the profits for themselves. This idea of needing someone else to promote your talents in the age of the internet, its long gone. Promote yourself, keep what you earn.
Change the business model, embrace the internet, embrace some form of fair use content sharing, and for the love of god, stop clinging to your antiquated business model because there will be a lessened need for executives and agents to pillage the talents of the entertainment industry.