{"id":2656,"date":"2012-01-19T09:24:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T08:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2012-01-19T09:24:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T08:24:47","slug":"piratebays-publik-staetment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2012\/01\/piratebays-publik-staetment\/","title":{"rendered":"Piratebay’s publik staetment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liek TorrentFreak<\/a>, i think it is a gud idea to poest TPB’s publik staetment<\/a> in ful bekus it is very gud. Enjoi.<\/p>\n

“\u2014TPB on SOPA\/PIPA<\/p>\n

Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would \u201cdo for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear\u201d. He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person to own the copyright to a motion picture.<\/p>\n

Because of Edison\u2019s patents it was close to financially impossible to create motion pictures in the North American East Coast. The movie studios therefore relocated to California, and founded what we today call Hollywood. The reason was mostly because there were no patents. There was also no copyright to speak of, so the studios could copy old stories and make movies out of them \u2013 like Fantasia, one of Disney\u2019s biggest hits ever.<\/p>\n

So, the whole basis of this industry, that today is screaming about losing control over immaterial rights, is that they circumvented immaterial rights. They copied (or put in their terminology: \u201cstole\u201d) other people\u2019s creative works, without paying for them. They did it in order to make a huge profit. Today, they\u2019re all successful and most of the studios are on the Fortune 500 list of the richest companies in the world. Congratulations \u2013 it\u2019s all based on being able to re-use other people\u2019s creative works. And today they hold the rights to what other people create. If you want to get something released, you have to abide by their rules. The ones they created after circumventing other people\u2019s rules.<\/p>\n

The reason they are always complaining about \u201cpirates\u201d today is simple. We\u2019ve done what they did. We circumvented the rules they created and created our own. We crushed their monopoly by giving people something more efficient. We allow people to have direct communication between each other, circumventing the profitable middle man, that in some cases take over 107% of the profits (yes, you pay to work for them). It\u2019s all based on the fact that we\u2019re competition. We\u2019ve proven that their existence in their current form is no longer needed. We\u2019re just better than they are.<\/p>\n

And the funny part is that our rules are very similar to the founding ideas of the USA. We fight for Freedom of Speech. We see all people as equal. We believe that the public, not the elite, should rule the nation. We believe that laws should be created to serve the public, not the rich corporations.<\/p>\n

The Pirate Bay is truly an international community. The team is spread all over the globe \u2013 but we\u2019ve stayed out of the USA. We have Swedish roots and a Swedish friend said this: The word SOPA means \u201ctrash\u201d in Swedish. The word PIPA means \u201ca pipe\u201d in Swedish. This is of course not a coincidence. They want to make the internet into a one way pipe, with them at the top, shoving trash through the pipe down to the rest of us obedient consumers. The public opinion on this matter is clear. Ask anyone on the street and you\u2019ll learn that noone wants to be fed with trash. Why the US government want the American people to be fed with trash is beyond our imagination but we hope that you will stop them, before we all drown.<\/p>\n

SOPA can\u2019t do anything to stop TPB. Worst case we\u2019ll change top level domain from our current .org to one of the hundreds of other names that we already also use. In countries where TPB is blocked, China and Saudi Arabia springs to mind, they block hundreds of our domain names. And did it work? Not really. To fix the \u201cproblem of piracy\u201d one should go to the source of the problem. The entertainment industry say they\u2019re creating \u201cculture\u201d but what they really do is stuff like selling overpriced plushy dolls and making 11 year old girls become anorexic. Either from working in the factories that creates the dolls for basically no salary or by watching movies and TV shows that make them think that they\u2019re fat.<\/p>\n

In the great Sid Meiers computer game Civilization you can build Wonders of the World. One of the most powerful ones is Hollywood. With that you control all culture and media in the world. Rupert Murdoch was happy with MySpace and had no problems with their own piracy until it failed. Now he\u2019s complaining that Google is the biggest source of piracy in the world \u2013 because he\u2019s jealous. He wants to retain his mind control over people and clearly you\u2019d get a more honest view of things on Wikipedia and Google than on Fox News.<\/p>\n

Some facts (years, dates) are probably wrong in this press release. The reason is that we can\u2019t access this information when Wikipedia is blacked out. Because of pressure from our failing competitors. We\u2019re sorry for that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liek TorrentFreak, i think it is a gud idea to poest TPB’s publik staetment in ful bekus it is very gud. Enjoi. “\u2014TPB on SOPA\/PIPA Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would \u201cdo for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear\u201d. He called it the Kinetoscope. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1451],"tags":[1827],"class_list":["post-2656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright-and-filesharing","tag-piratebay","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2658,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions\/2658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}