Yay! Free Speech!
Saturday, April 19th, 2008Thank you TBP! Now I can say whatever is on my mind! This baywords thing sure is nifty! OK, enough with the small talk, onto business:
TPB are assholes. It’s been clearly demonstrated that they’re not criminals, and they’re not in breach of any relevant laws. It is pretty clear however that they are providing a service with a primary objective to undermine copyright law. They’re using a loophole in the law to do so. That loophole is there to help protect people and organisations with good intentions from wrongful prosecution, but their abuse could well end that loophole.
If they truly want to change copyright law, they could start by making themselves respectable. As it stands, they’re little more than leaches sucking advertising revenue out of huge amounts of illegal activity. The only way they can garner any sympathy for themselves is to deliberately confuse copyright with censorship. The comparison is a ridiculous hyperbole of current laws, which many would argue are a ridiculous hyperbole in themselves. What exactly are they fighting for? Are they fighting for their right to express themselves by pressing play on their iPods?
That’s it. That’s their one and only justification. Mix a little FUD, a little smoke and mirrors, a lot of underdog, and you have a reality distortion field that would make Steve Jobs weep. Tackling the complex issue of copyright would spoil the effect. Practical solutions doubly so.
I needed to get that off my chest. Thanks TPB! I hope you guys rot in hell!