Here's a good question: Why doesn't anyone host servers in Spain? It's perfectly legal there to fileshare without any profit. I'm glad that finally I see a country not giving a f**k about U.S. law and governing their own country with their own laws. America needs to stop coercing other countries, such as Sweden, to obey American laws. This shows that lesser economically empowered countries can stand up to the snobby government and anti-piracy companies that think they can sue pretty much anybody they desire (whether in the country or not). Most of the time, though, they fail in successfully prosecuting denizens in other countries.

As I said before, filesharing is not bad but in our nature to learn new things and new ideas to help innovate the world. Companies (with their millions in access) don't have enough brains or are too hidebound in trying to think of a way for media lovers, education lovers, and anybody else to give the consumers what they want, when they want it, and at a low, resonable price. In my opinion, I think there should be less talk about abstract rep. points and more talk on filesharing and its current stance and where it should go before the U.S. and any other bothersome force gets the better of all of us (no matter where you live).

As I just currently read, Swizz Beatz (an American rapper) has a potential in being involved some way in the Megaupload case which I find repulsive that the Feds need him for a substantial evidence of copyright infringement (he only supported Megaupload; he was not involved in any operations in the site). Anyways, this battle of filesharing and the legality of it needs to stop not only in the U.S. (where they are strict about it), but also globally.

I had no intention of writing this much, but I hope you ,KAT members, enjoyed my take on the whole situation. I would love to see your take on this "article". By the way, please, no one put any posts on top of this one (put posts underneath this one when replying to my post; I want to make this on top of my wall for a while). Spread the ideas of this article to your friends on KAT and anybody else and keep spreading ideas and innovations to the world (one upload at a time)! :) Thanks for reading.

Okay I stand corrected - it's 6 warning letters you get, not 7. Nevertheless, it's a scary law, with scary consequences.
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There are several "non-profit" public service organizations, including the Democratic political party in the USA, that are now organizing petition signing efforts to get voters and others who have a "vested interest" (they live in the USA and use the Internet) to petition our Congress representatives (Senators and representatives), and write to our President, contact the U.S. Supreme Court - anyone they can mobilize in large numbers of us for, to protest the development of laws which impede people's freedom of voice and choice on the Internet. I've signed a lot of petitions over the last several months about this issue.
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There has been partial success in the ongoing efforts to stop private industry, and our Congress, from blockading the Internet from public access by people who want to exercise their $$$ monetary powers to impose their will on the rest of us.
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But it is an ongoing battle, and it requires funding to keep those organizations which oppose censorship on the Internet viable and working! There is nothing FREE about the exchange of information or entertainment on the Internet. Somebody has to pay for the maintenance of the equipment, the use of energy, the distribution of information, and dozens of other services that keep the Internet functioning.
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Also, inspite of the fact that we all love our freedom to share our music and our movies, the fact is undeniable that if the musicians, the actors, the movie houses, the producers and directors, the bands and the orchestras do not get paid by somebody for their time and efforts, their training, their equipment, then they cannot keep producing music and movies. We will dry up the collective "Well of the Arts" if we don't support them!
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This argument has been made over, and over, and over again - long before the advent of the Internet. The Arts are NOT free of charge. There have been too many starving artists and musicians and actors in the world who have died trying to make a living at their art.
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It's deplorable how we treat our most gifted contributors!

There was an indie band that once said that they would rather have their music listened to, but not receive any money, than for their music to be sold at a high price, and have little to no people listen to it.

I can appreciate their feeling that way, but I would be willing to bet they are NOT in the "business" of making music just so people will like listening to it. They are probably hoping to land a nice big contract with a music production company at some point, and make enough money from their music to support themselves and their families. Preferably "in style"... so they can ride in limosines to concert halls, and have a merry time of it. It's easy to say "I don't care about money, I just care about my music.. or my "art". It's a lot harder to say that after you've been starving for awhile, and cannot afford to buy replacement strings for your guitar, or skins for your drum, or gas for your wheels so you can drive to the gig!

Well in the early days of The Who, they were getting paid around £100 per gig, but were smashing up around £250 worth of equipment. Eventually they became the greatest British rock band, and still perform. That's commitment for you

A similar thing happened before where an artist officially asked anyone (including pirates) who had a copy of one of his rare albums to upload it for him as he no longer had access to it.

Spain has copyright laws where did you get this info??

I can just imagine how ANGRY the music production company got over their very expensive disregard for their music promoter's equipment. Bet they discovered they were paying for that equipment from the profits they would have otherwise made! And that certainly would have been fair.

I understand both sides of the argument. File sharing is reaching deeper and deeper into the pockets of producers of multimedia as it becomes more popular daily. Eventually I would like to see both sides come together. If the media outlets would put out a internet company that you could download unlimited data from for a flat fee I think people would jump on it.
Spain will more than likely change it's tune. All Media outlets would have to do is threaten to withhold releasing new material and the courts would cave.
That's my two cents.

I am a walking testament to the industry and their unabashed greed. i have gotten four copyright infringement letters, three for music and one for a movie. like i said in a post a while back, i download stuff here first as a way of "renting" something new. if i like what i d/l i will go out and buy the original copy from the store, cause i like my music collection to have the artwork and dvd case that the items come in. but in any case, thank you APisEZ for a rant that is completely warranted against the industry. i have also said that if these labels didnt invest so much $ in one-hit-wonders and movies that they even know are destined to fail, maybe, just maybe the people like us wouldnt catch so much backlash....like APisE says, we need more people out there that are willing to stand up for us and to speak out. even with my 4 copyright infringement letters i am about to go out and d/l and share as much as i can before getting shut down. thank the kat comm. for their support, and keep on d/loading and seeding...!@ck the industry...

it's torrent world and copyright..here's a damn kitten and now it an image thread too!!! hee hee