Ten "inconvenient truths" about file-sharing

[danrok]

Behold the truth on the Front Page!
http://www.aoaforums.com/frontpage/content/view/2583/1/

Comments?

[keithwalton]

They just had to go and use the T word didnt they, from that point on i took everything they said with the smallest pinch of salt, only one grain infact

[danrok]

You mean some tramp on the street selling dodgy CDs doesn't really work for Al Qiada? But, he has a beard!

[dsio]

Piracy has also been linked to illegal immigrants, gay marriage, and legalized abortion. It really is the root of all evil.

[Toro]

even worse than money!

also lol @ "1. Pirate Bay, one of the flagships of the anti-copyright movement, makes thousands of euros from advertising on its site, while maintaining its anti-establishment “free music” rhetoric."

being for free music and being anti advertising are different things. that holds no water what so ever. Gotta pay for servers etc somehow

[Gizmo]

I think the point they are making is that Pirate Bay touts itself as being 'anti-establishment' yet they use advertising to pay their hosting fees, which is very much establishment.

Of course the argument is specious, but that's the whole idea, isn't it?

[dsio]

Originally Posted by gizmo

...yet they use advertising to pay their hosting fees...

If only they all did...

There's nothing wrong with paying hosting bills!

[Toro]

either way its hardly the most inconvenient thing I've ever heard.
Also
The Pirate Bay don't say anything about being anti establishment, they are anti-copyright

[Daniel ~]

Now here's the inconvenient truth.

You set your self up to own the art of this world, before it's even created.
You have Zero support among the people you are suppose to serve.
You have Zero chance of wining a war against your own customers, how stupid do you have to be not to know that!!!???
You have Zero credibility even with each other!
You will go the way of the Dodo and we will be glad.
If you don't like it, to freaking bad!