This sounds like one of those plots to conquer the world in comic series like Pinky & The Brain. The Piratebay (and fellowship) are planing to raise enough money to buy the Principality of Sealand located in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. I’m not sure if they really intend to buy Sealand because the sovereignty was never recognized by another country.

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Nonsense. That was my thought when I first read the articles ” Music industry demands the right to sue ISPs” from the Independent Online Edition and “Indie Labels want copyright shift” from the BBC Online. Several trade organisations including the Association of Independent Music (AIM), the Musicians’ Union and the MCPS-PRS Alliance proposed that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should be liable for illegal filesharing by their users. (which means that it would be possible to sue ISPs because of this liability)

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Now thats an intersting article by Ernest Adams about the End of Copyright. Starting with Gutenberg he gives a rough introduction how copyright came into existance. The interesting part begins after this introduction. When the first photocpiers were introduced people started using them to copy parts of books for their own personal use. This was at first frowned at but later a fair-use law was introduced due to the massive amount of people who used the photocopiers.

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