The piratebay is the worlds biggest BitTorrent tracker, where most of the material you can search for often is protected by the intellectual property.
It all started as a hobby project, but today the webside daily generating advertising revenue most people only can dream about.
The page was bred by a original critical interest group as a part of efforts to simplify file sharing. The piratebay consists of a directory where users can search for torrent files other users have uploaded.
Serviced provided by the piratebay makes effcient transmissions of large amounts of data possible.
This has both legal and illegal applications, witch has led to to that the film and music industry has spent considerable amounds of resources to close the webside.
In 2009 three persons named Gottfried Svartholm , Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde was brought to trial accused of copyright infringement. They were sentenced to one year in prison and 30 million in compensation.
I hav chosen to write about this because the question either free downloading is stealing is mutch discussed, and is very mutch about the ethical aspekts we see. Anti- pirats hav set up with horror commercials were they compare downloading with stealing. Pirates belive this is not comparable when a copy is not the same as physically stealing.¨
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