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Originally Posted by gideongallery
please torrents are one legal precedent from being just as legal as a vcr. The vcr was illegal too before the betamax case overturned the lower court ruling.
Just because some people don't want to spend 100k defending themselves against a missapplied legal precedent doesn't mean they know what they are doing is illegal, it just quite simply that they don't want to incur the expense of fighting for their rights. They will let the pirate bay fight the fight, and then relaunch after it is 100% legal.
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This is not really about the tracker itself, but the content and the way its organized. Obviously it is not legal (in Sweden) to organize piracy this way. Otherwise they wouldn't go to jail... And if I'm not mistaken, this was not about the website and all trackers at pirate bay, but just some few.
I think in Sweden, you do not pay the costs if you win. So its about calculated risks, as I said. Do you think they would shut down their trackers, if the pirate bay guys were not sentenced? I don't think so. However, I'm not only talking about calculating the risks vs the laws right now, but also politics. In the end, its the lawmakers, local and international, that will decide the future of internet. And pirates ruin the privacy and freedom with and on internet... ironically something they "fight" for...
Actually, the costs, time and effort, are the factors keeping
copyright holders away from doing something. Only those organized and with money, can do something. This lack of protection is a political question now, and with the growing amount of piracy, I think the only solution is the politicians to decide on which levels they will interfere. These steps are of course unfortunate, but it will happen. Unless everyone shut down their trackers
