Bittorrent site files charges against media companies

[Papewaio]

It will be interesting. Considering even if the Bittorrent site was being used for criminal purposes by some members it does not allow the corporations to use criminal attacks on the sites. It would be the equivalent to a concert having stalls and some of them bootlegged variants, with the media companies sending in heavies to rough up all the stall owners... not allowed. IF the media companies have an issue they still have to go through legal means. Taking the law into their own hands should invoke heavy penalties from the state as it is a basic matter of sovereignty.

[Beirut]

Fight the Machine!

I love it when big corporations get whacked.

[Watchman]

While I must admit my take on the whole P2P thing has always been somewhat uncomfortably conflicted, I've never been a fan of vigilantism. Doubly so when practiced by fiscal entities motivated mainly by their concern of the almighty Bottom Line, and here quite likely also a fair bit of petty spite.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I'm a big fan of seeing corporations taken down a notch and very paranoid about corporations getting too much power, so yeah they should get smacked for this.

[FactionHeir]

Now they just have to prove that this email is real and and the contents valid.

Still, its good to see that the media giants are being hit. Especially the producers of SecuROM (albeit the Swedish branch)

[HoreTore]

The statement above was taken from a blog-like article on the site, and the users could make comments on it... 500 replies, didn't read through much of it, but this one was pretty good:

Actors, producers, directors, musicians, entertainment corporations...if they actually were losing money from torrents, maybe they'd be a little more economical with the money they have left and stop producing rehashes of the summer and holiday filler movies and the crappy bands that write formula money making music. Maybe we'd have more quality product coming out...the stuff that really can only be found in independent circles anymore. Maybe they'd stop trying to raise prices just to save their asses. Maybe they'd adapt to today's society and actually listen to their consumers. Me, I'll actually pay for anything that's fairly priced, isn't going to invade my privacy and is of high quality. Otherwise, it's just garbage anyway and the corps don't deserve to make a penny from garbage.

They think they can play by old rules and slam the people into submission, but they need to learn the new rules of economy if they want to survive. If they were really worried about money, they'd all take a paycut and move to Kentucky.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Having download those MediaDefender emails when they were first released, i can backup TPB's claims.

Good luck and god speed to TPB in fighting the corporate giants.