Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?'

Re:Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?' by jimktrains2 on Thursday December 11, 2014 @11:27AM (#8735604)

First, I never said "pirating is okay". Please stop putting words in my mouth. I support the idea that content creators paid for their work. Sometimes, in the context of F/OSS for instance, the creators choose to forgo that directly and often indirectly (e.g. donations).

Secondly, downloading a work under a non-permissive copyright is not theft, and may not even be illegal. Content shifting is a legal thing to do. If I own a DVD one could argue that I could download an already ripped version of the DVD (CSS issues aside).

Third, not everything linked to on TPB was covered under a non-permissive copyright.

Please stop assuming everyone is an idiot and immoral.

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Re:Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?' by arfar on Thursday December 11, 2014 @09:17PM (#8738290)

>Content shifting is a legal thing to do

Small point, but it actually depends on the country's laws. In New Zealand, it's illegal to do that. It's even illegal to rip a CD you own. It's stupid and would never be enforecd, but it is the law.

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