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Old 06-28-2009, 04:05 PM  
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Originally Posted by gideongallery View Post
1. survey after survey amoung the masses comes back with the popular statement that filesharing for personal use should not be legal (which is the service pb provides)
thats exactly my point , most people agree its not legal thus it should be illegal , thus thats why pbay got busted.


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2. under the current laws (where you don't ignore fair use) a majority of the pirate bays actions is non infringing.
actions ? most people use it for sharing copyright material they do not have the right to download or share, there may be many legal torrents being used legally , doesnt make the illegal ones legal, nor does it make it the majority of their service , MOST people aren't using it for legal purposes. just like pawnshops , they get regulated different than other shops, because people realise they are used primarily by criminals if they are not regulated.

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The current case failed to tell the difference between me using the torrents as a vcr and someone else who used it to infringe. Treating both as illegal under the law (when the "loophole" makes them quite different).
you should already know the difference, they obviously didn't hence the guilty verdict
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