Gottfried Svartholm Warg of The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker site, grants a rare interview to “Russia Today.”
There’s a new clip up on YouTube taken from a recent news report by Russia Today about The Pirate Bay and its recent legal woes involving charges of copyright infringement by Swedish authorities.
In it, Gottfried Svartholm Warg, one of The Pirate Bay’s founders, speaks out about he’s taking a stand against greedy corporate America.
Though I find it sort of troubling that The Pirate Bay is reportedly making tons of cash, essentially with the use of other people’s content, I find the actions of the American entertainment industry no less troubling. It’s one thing to try and get govt to shape laws to bend to ones own needs, but it’s entirely another when those laws begin to prevent the free flow of information between individuals – the very essence of a free society.
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Sometimes a little information is the same thing as a lie. A pile of papers to be presented as evidence means nothing until it’s presented. It’s interesting they’re fighting this case in the press before they get to trial.
The recording artist had a good idea. A commercial Pirate Bay. Why are they blaming the Pirate Bay for the fact they can’t get one though? That’s a lie. It’s the multi-nationals preventing that possibility not the Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay has only presented the possibility.
Also presenting one side of an argument but editing out the other is just another way to lie.
As I understand The Pirate Bay’s argument goes something like it’s legal and it isn’t really about the trading of copyright information. It’s about offering an opportunity for people to freely trade information and letting them decide what sort of information should be traded. From a commercial standpoint it’s up to commercial enterprise to then decide how to adapt to the people’s preferences. If as that propaganda piece claimed there truly is a commercial model and if as the Pirate Bay claims it’s legal are the Pirate Bay criminals simply because the market place refuses to exploit it?
“The recording artist had a good idea. A commercial Pirate Bay.”
Wouldn’t that just be an independent iTunes?
“Wouldn’t that just be an independent iTunes?”
Indeed and thats what drives them nuts.
Job’s has them by the digital nuts dictating to them
the value of their product. Masterful.
This is why they refuse to let it become commercial
they percive a loss of more control
Yeah it would be interesting to see how much money has been made in advertising in the last 10 years from P2P. It was no secret that Napster made ungodly amounts of money Kazaa put Napster to shame and apparently piratebay.org an ILLEGAL website which is just one of the hundreds of bittorrent sites is raking in millions. I’m sure Limewire is doing just as well. It would be interesting to see how much iTunes makes in revenue and how much Limewire makes. Google and Yahoo have climbed to the top of the stock market just based on advertising revenue and all they do is help you search for things. A bittorrent site actually provides you a product think about what the marketing potential is there.
Stupidity abounds in the music business world.
They don’t really make that much money they spend most off it on servers and other hardware