Re: Pirate Bay founders jailed

["sjl" <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen wrote:
  Just to clarify.
  They have been sentenced, it will be appealed,
  but they have not been put behind bars yet.

  But just to stirr some more interest.
  The issue here is copyright law - the exact same approach
  that powers the GPL to protect the open source software.
  Hence, we should be very interested in seeing how this turns out -
  as professionals :)



Thorbjoern -

I am very interested in the outcome of this trial.

I don't condone piracy, but I liken this trial to one accusing bankers of 
money-laundering simply because criminals have accounts and run money 
through their banks.  Or more commonly, in the USA (because of 
minimum-sentencing laws) our police typically bust the crack-cocaine users 
on the street and sentence them to years in prison at massive costs to 
taxpayers, but do little about the dealers and importers...

IMO, governments should be pursuing and shutting down the pirates - those 
who actually copy and store the intellectual property.

- sjl