Comments on: Forbes: Why Web Pirates Can’t Be Touched http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/17/forbes-why-web-pirates-cant-be-touched/ A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:54:46 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Luke http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/17/forbes-why-web-pirates-cant-be-touched/#comment-121226 Luke Tue, 22 May 2007 14:47:23 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/17/forbes-why-web-pirates-cant-be-touched/#comment-121226 green = greed :P green = greed :P

]]> By: Luke http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/17/forbes-why-web-pirates-cant-be-touched/#comment-121225 Luke Tue, 22 May 2007 14:45:25 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/17/forbes-why-web-pirates-cant-be-touched/#comment-121225 You hit the nail on the head here. Pirate Bay is perfectly legal in Sweden. AllofMP3 is perfectly legal in Russia. Who are we to tell Swedish and Russian people how to design their copyright law? They are sovereign independent countries, and they should be able to govern themselves as they please. All this whining about lax copyright laws and loopholes is just thinly veiled green underlined xenophobia. You hit the nail on the head here. Pirate Bay is perfectly legal in Sweden. AllofMP3 is perfectly legal in Russia. Who are we to tell Swedish and Russian people how to design their copyright law?

They are sovereign independent countries, and they should be able to govern themselves as they please. All this whining about lax copyright laws and loopholes is just thinly veiled green underlined xenophobia.

]]> By: Man Friday http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/17/forbes-why-web-pirates-cant-be-touched/#comment-119089 Man Friday Thu, 17 May 2007 20:02:08 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/17/forbes-why-web-pirates-cant-be-touched/#comment-119089 The RIAA exists because business practices have not kept up with technologies or attitudes. The RIAA exists because of a lack of vision and the lack of brains or balls to drive a sustainable business model. Rupert Murdoch may be the Anti-Christ but his brains are bigger than his balls but the two he has are gigantic brass ones. The RIAA exists because business practices have not kept up with technologies or attitudes. The RIAA exists because of a lack of vision and the lack of brains or balls to drive a sustainable business model. Rupert Murdoch may be the Anti-Christ but his brains are bigger than his balls but the two he has are gigantic brass ones.

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