Because the travesty of justice made by illegally arresting him and seizing his assets is more important than the man himself.

That's adorable. Voters are certainly not in charge though.

There is nothing ethical about abstaining from piracy.

You are depriving yourself from seeing a higher quality release, available now without DRM or commercials.

Obtaining the content in this way does not prevent you from supporting and/or purchasing the works in a format of your choosing at a later date.

Well, that's stupid. Depriving yourself for nonsense moral reasons. Baaaa.

It hasn't, and you don't seem to understand either of them.

I'm guessing it was perhaps 'coca' and 'cola'. As parent said, please try *a little bit*.

No. not parasites.

They are people who understand who broken copyright is and how beneficial something like TPB is to society, and worked to make it available in light of numerous lawsuits and countries trying to shut it down.

Most people agree with that, sort of.

What most are not OK with is the length (120 years after the death of the author, IIRC), and the depth. Why should this protection extend to preventing someone from downloading MP3's of a CD they have already paid for?

Can you think of any good reason? Because that is one of many examples (others being better quality products, lack of DRM, lack of availability) that justify piracy, and is something the pirate bay helped facilitate, as a service to the entire online community.

Most people are not against copyright as a principle, and agree with allowing the author some time and protection to profit. But the way things are now is ridiculous.

A man should never be in jail for something like this. It's abhorrent.

Guardians of the Galaxy features many colorful characters, that may well inspire ideas for a new franchise or universe.

It may not benefit society, but like all works it has potential.

Sorry, but the loss of profit is negligible and irrelevant. Aside from the fact that piracy results in a net profit to make up for any loss, that how it's been for the last 12 years or so, and that's how it's going to continue to be.

More importantly, that's how it *should* be.

Yes, I am taking the copy without paying for it, and I do so proudly.

When I was broke, I couldn't afford to see most movies, TV shows etc. I pirated them. Having access to this stuff has only helped me, and certainly has not helped the content creators as I could not have paid for it anyway.

It's not a sense of entitlement, but since it is freely available and I don't see it as hurting anyone, I don't see what the problem is in taking advantage of an opportunity.

More to your point, art shouldn't need this ridiculous protection. Throughout most of history artists made a living because of their performance, or their execution. No one could paint like Dali or Picaso, write like Shakespeare or compose like Mozart.

If you are good, people will pay for it. To protect every single idea as precious and to limit sharing is ridiculous, and not a sustainable model as we advance as a society.

ALl this man did was help build a search enging allowing people to share.

This only benefits society.

There is no stealing, despite what some ignorant people unable to think for themselves claim.

Is there a loss in profit for original work? No doubt, but I would argue this is superseded by a) the increase in sales that piracy has been shown to affect, and b) the huge benefit to society by allowing information to be more freely accessible, to inspire and educate.

This shows IMHO a lack of understanding of how court tends to work. I think you should be right, but all too often the examples like you so readily dismissed will be taken out of context and misrepresented, resulting in more time and money and far from a guarantee of winning, despite being innocent.

Yes, by barricading all doors and windows. In the event someone does get in to do something bad, there is very little in place to protect against it.

No ACL, Auditing, MAC etc. Just very basic chroots and securelevels. Meh.

We had command line tools for managing packages, but not for searching and installing from a repository.