[pp.int.general] The Piratebay

[Fedor Khod'kov]

Maxime Rouquet <maxime.rouquet at partipirate.org> writes:

> The only problem with that statement, is that TPB website displays
> advertisment. So, it is not exactly "non-commercial" filesharing as long as
> you consider the website, because they make money (no problem with the tracker
> and other stuff on this point).

Filesharing *is* non-commercial, because those who download files don't
pay to those who upload them.  TPB facilitates filesharing, and
facilitating filesharing is commercial activity in TPB case, but
filesharing itself is non-commercial, so there is no reason to object.
Maintaining worldwide-used website such as The Pirate Bay is hard and
important job; and it is really cool what this job brings money to guys
who do it.

TV and radio is different case - they don't just help others to play
videos and music, they play it themselves, earning money as a result.
So they should pay the authors just as publishers.
-- 
Fedor.