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Not sure if any of you have actually tried to keep up to date with this...
I've been following it quite closely myself *Cough* Obvious reasons *cough*

This is the verdict, but the case isn't closed yet, Pirate Bay's founders still have a chance to appeal against the charge... And considering the fact that they're trying to send them to jail for a year and pay over £1 million in fines... I doubt both charges will stand up, especially since they have made NO PROFIT from the torrents... And selling T-shirts really isn't a punishable offence...

They should go sue youtube whilethey're at it... The amount of movies that are on there, along with music...
Also, the general rule applies... When one goes down, more come back up, like a freaking hydra...

Remember napster? They shut down the free part of that... People refused to pay for it and they made their own sites... MiniNova, Piratebay, Torrent-Reactor etc. etc.

Anti-piracy methods ONLY affect people who BUY the game...
And the companies just hate losing ANY money... Christ, look at the radio... people used to say how that would ruin the record buisness; yet millions of records & CD's are still sold every year...
Its the same in this case, people still pirate the games but many more people still actually buy the games... There are even the people who pirate the game to try it and then buy the game so they can keep it or play it online...
Piracy is actually helping companies by advertising their games... And by including anti-piracy methods, it encourages piracy...

Just my three cents... (Since its a wall o' text)

At 4/17/09 09:08 AM, Shreddy wrote: just think how large their userbase is, its much larger than newgrounds, and newgrounds makes enough money to sustain staff and tom is worth something like $15mil

"We can't pay and we wouldn't pay. Even if I had the money I would rather burn everything I owned, and I wouldn't even give them the ashes."

Newgrounds can get normal advertisers. TPB only gets adult advertisers. Thus, Newgrounds makes more. Tom Fulp also develops hit video games. TPB group do not. Thus they don't have that much money.

At 4/17/09 02:43 PM, Jordsky wrote:

At 4/17/09 02:42 PM, Lagamuffin wrote:

At 4/17/09 02:32 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote:

I would never even consider getting my fat ass off this chair to go and protest about someone who did something illegal

Yeah, cause you'd get twatted by Riot Police.

OLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

specially in UK

NAW FUCK DAT SHIIIIIIIIIIIT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7402702.st m

Oh, also...
If these companies didn't decide to form together into one huge mega-companies....
Activision-Blizzard, EA, Ubisoft for example..
Then they wouldn't sue people overy every loss they have... Because they wouldn't make the insane amount of money they do now and then moan about EVERY SINGLE LOSS.

At 4/17/09 06:57 AM, Shreddy wrote:

people should start paying for their movies and songs.

Lol.

Sad day for pirates! Arrrrrr.

But it does open a new opportunity for Google to buy a new enterprise. "The Google Bay (Keep it legal!)".

At 4/17/09 01:11 PM, KeithJD-SniperWolf wrote:

At 4/17/09 01:02 PM, Krbyfan1 wrote: So I never used Pirate Bay at all.

Why um... should i be concerned?

Well here's two points.. one: why are you concerning yourself in the first place by posting here if it doesn't concern you smartass?

Well you lost my support. I only like nice, charismatic leaders in my campaigns.

YOU BIG MEANIE!

Didn't read full thread

So that means that I can't get stuff from there?

SHIT!

Justice will prevail in due time, patience is just necessary.

In laymens terms their asses are going to be cleared in the long run.

From the Bay itself:
So, the dice courts judgement is here. It was lol to read and hear, crazy verdict.

But as in all good movies, the heroes lose in the beginning but have an epic victory in the end anyhow. That's the only thing hollywood ever taught us.
So yeah. Doesn't look like the pirates are going down anytime soon. And even if they do, there's alternatives. The media companies wouldn't think of taking down Google, and you can find plenty of torrents there.

At 4/17/09 06:57 AM, Shreddy wrote:

At 4/17/09 06:47 AM, Gagsy wrote: B-But what happens now with the Pirate Bay website?

either:
- it remains and someone will takeover running it

Doesn't sound too probable.

- it gets shut down and someone will create a new website

This however does.

or... people should start paying for their movies and songs.

Yeah and maybe I'll start a snow shoveling business in hell.

At 4/17/09 03:45 PM, Lagamuffin wrote:

At 4/17/09 02:55 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote:

NAW FUCK DAT SHIIIIIIIIIIIT

That's how the G20 protest should've gone down...

Ah, but y'see, glaswegians don't care about global recession, they just care about football and drink.

At 4/17/09 04:05 PM, darkmaster962000 wrote: Yeah and maybe I'll start a snow shoveling business in hell.

hell isnt neccesairily fire and brimstone, it is a culmination of your worst nightmares and mindless tedium

so shovelling endless snow in hell is entirely probable.

What i find funny is that because all of the computers with all the files on them are hidden away in far away countries, piratebay is still running, so all this press is just making them more money. A year in jail for a whole load of extra publicity and a completely clean slate seems like a good deal to me.

At 4/17/09 06:54 AM, tigger448 wrote:

But calling yourself 'Pirate Bay' sort of hints at the content you want users to upload, and encourages them to do so.

No no no, you've got it all wrong! It's a pirate themed site where you download torrents with pictures of pirates! Arr, me hearties, show some love!

It's just a bad time to be a pirate anywhere eh?

fuck that, they didn't do anything illegal.
and before all you moralfags get up in arms about "oh it's piracy"
it doesn't matter, they actually never did anything illegal.
technically Google can be charged for the same thing.

Heard the story on the radio a few hours ago. And the whole things seems a bit ridicoulous. Ok, sure they "owned" The Pirate Bay but they didn't control what was put up on it, and even then this sort of thing is very common in Sweden. It is only because of the pressure from Warner Bros etc that this action was taken to such an extent.

Even then this is over £2 million split between FOUR people and then a year in jail for each just because they owned a website.

Well I'm pissed, I love that site.

anyone know how long there going to be put away?

the article didnt say

God fucking dammit...

Goodnight, sweet princes...

At 4/17/09 07:17 AM, Pugberto wrote: I guess you just can't run from the law, best to just buy stuff now.

But is cooler to be a pirate.

At 4/17/09 06:26 AM, HungarianSupermarket wrote: They had it coming.

They did nothing illegal. If they get arrested, then almost all popular web site owners should be arrested too.

They should have MILLIONS of counts of copyright infringement. Don't mess with torrents. It's not worth all the risk.

Oh wow, lol, freaking owned.

The pirtate bay t shirts were awesome.

Beat me to it. :(

oh my god this sux...

That's dumb since the owners didn't do anything but host the trackers. The site never hosted any of the actual data such as mp3's or games/software etc, all it provided was a a database to search for the trackers.

They should shut down google too since I've used that more than anything to find my torrents.

google: (insert software/artist/game) torrent

At 4/17/09 02:51 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote:

especially the 85% of players that pirated it.

99.9 percent of the stuff I "pirate" I wouldn't have paid for ANYWAYS even if I couldn't get it for free through torrents.

im not saying you do, but anyone who think's the denying of potential profits to a company should ILLEGAL (as in getting prison time or paying 500,000 fines) is retarded. And I really can't feel bad for a game company when they often charge upwards of 70 $ for a new game .