04-18-2009, 01:43 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-18-2009, 01:50 AM by Bob the Beholder.)
Quote:I didn't make it through the entire 25 minute press conference, but I'm pretty sure the Epic Win is just wishful thinking about how this is going to turn out on appeal.
It's important not to gloss over the details and make broad assumptions about the precedent this could set. I don't know, for example, what kind of track record The Pirate Bay has with regards to removing things at the request of the copyright holder. Even choosing a name like "The Pirate Bay" might make it a bit harder to convince a judge that you are a legitimate search engine rather than a warez provider.
The epic win is that it took the government three years to come up with a bull#$%& charge that you could label on pretty much any website, service, etc.. They got nothing, and they're going, "Yeaaah, well, let's just say it's this, massively trump up the sentence, and hope it scares 'em into stopping." And it ain't working.
Oh, and the track record the Pirate Bay has for removing copyrighted files, is that they don't have the copyrighted files on their servers, and when they get emails to remove things or cease and desist letters they post them on the site and mock the sender publicly. Here's the archive.