2009-04-26, 11:55 AM
(This post was last modified: 2009-04-26, 11:59 AM by xLeviathan.)
Jaruddd Wrote:Have you followed the series of trials taken place regarding The Pirate Bay? Nowadays any major American conglomerate can throw the "Intellectual Property Violation" card out of their asses and have American law pushed on other countries.
It's not as far-fetched as you think.
In this circumstance, the servers are like real-estate. Same way with how if you're on an army base internationally, you're considered to be on American soil. If these folks are using Nexon's servers, they're subject to consequences present in the nation of those servers: the United States.
The Pirate Bay is staying up for another 2 - 5 years, depending on the time it takes the appeal to actually go to court. And the people who run it are still laughing their ass off at those American and British lawyers and law firms sending them copyright notices.
It's true, they could, but meso farmers aren't even hurting their business. Probably helping more than their hurting, such isn't really the case with the other two. Yeah, what you're saying is definitely true, though. :<
How unfortunate, look at my mindset these days! I feel like a communist or something (not really), but I do believe digital information/media should be open for the public, and trying to keep a hold on ownership of such digital property just seems so...pointless. It's so hard to remove the stuff from every nook and cranny, and they'd just waste way more money than necessary trying to do so. :/