What Will A Swedish Lawsuit Against TPB Do?
Found on Techdirt on Tuesday, 29 January 2008
It's been expected for a while, but reports are coming out that Swedish prosecutors will finally get around to filing charges against The Pirate Bay this week.
When the actual lawsuit is announced, expect quotes from the RIAA and MPAA about what a big deal this is -- but the only really big deal is how little this lawsuit will do to help the industry. It won't help them adjust to a changing market. It won't help them to adopt necessary new business models. It will only increase the attention given to the Pirate Bay and other sites. We've seen this before with Napster. We've seen this before with Grokster. We've seen this before with Kazaa. So why does the entertainment industry keep doing this?
The industry keeps on because teaching them would involve the usage of a heavy blunt object, a practice which is not allowed in modern school systems. Thus, the only option left is letting them face reality, where the same lesson is much tougher and painful.