Ban someone from the Internet because he is a file sharer ? Would not that be the equivalent of banning someone from using knifes ever again because he stabbed someone with one ? No sorry sir, you have to use the spoon to put butter on your bread, you are banned from using knifes ever again.

Well you used a car in the bank robbery, that means that we will ban you from driving around with cars ever again, sorry, no buses either, use a bike or walk. That’s silly I know but that’s how I feel about this proposal.

They act like if file sharing was the only activity for those users on the Internet. No information gathering, chatting, talking with friends, watching videos, movies, exchanging knowledge and all the other activities.

Someday they will understand that restrictions, drm, bans and all the other crazy ideas that they have to make the life of real consumers miserable and more expensive will not help stopping piracy at all. But go ahead, ban a huge part of the population from accessing the Internet and see what happens to the economic power and progress of that nation.. and your job in the next legislation..

It is not illegal in Sweden to link to a torrent file and I never quite understood why linking to something would be the same as actually downloading it. This would in essence mean that selling weapons should be equivalent to killing someone with weapons. Another prime example is the paragraph about allofmp3, the Russian mp3 provider operating perfectly legal in Russia. Forbes sees it this way:

Not every scheme to evade intellectual property laws is so subtle. The music-selling site AllofMP3 uses a simpler business model: Base your company in Russia, steal music from American labels and sell it cheaply.

Again, the service is perfectly legal in Russia. This is actually globalization, something that all companies are so keen of. Only that this time the consumer is profiting from it and not the global companies who sell their goods worldwide, buy cheap labor in poor countries and give a **** about the country that they are based in.

I also find it quite fascinating that Forbes is directly linking to websites of copyright offenders. Isn’t it illegal to do so according to their logic ? (Linking to torrents is illegal but linking to websites that host torrents is not ?)

What’s your take ?