[pp.int.general] The Piratebay

[Maxime Rouquet]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:55 PM, David Arcos <david.arcos at gmail.com> wrote:
> In example, think of Google. They do the same than TPB (index torrents,
allow searches). They have advertisements. But they don't do filesharing,
right?

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Fedor Khod'kov <fedor76 at istra.ru> wrote:

> 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.
>

I agree with most of what you said, but there still are a few things I would
like to precise.

For example, imagine a radio who split in two parts, the first one only
stocking music, and the second one only managing a website (or something
equivalent) with advertisement that gives you access to this music.

Depending on how you define everything, there could be a way of not being
considered as a publisher (and avoid paying the authors), while still doing
the same in practice.

Note that I speak in general and not of TPB here, as far as I know they have
no special connexion with the original uploaders of the files indexed by
their search engine…
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