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[James_Hibbard]

@felgall

What illegal activities? You don’t mention any illegal activities before that statement so you certainly are NOT staying with illegal activities.

Get out of the wrong side of bed, felgall?

The three PirateBay co-founders, as well as a fourth businessman associated with the site, were found guilty of working together to administer, host, and develop the site and thereby facilitating other people’s breach of copyright law. They got hefty fines and one year jail time. So, I guess they were guilty of illegal activities in the eyes of Swedish law.

The Sony hack was definitely illegal.

@felgall

Or was this another case of the movie studios not wanting the difficulty of trying to find those breaching their copyright in order to take individual civil actions against each of them and instead trying to pressure a government toward making the internet illegal so as to save themselves the expense of either trying to find and prosecute those who have breached their copyright or (better) spending money on trying to find a technological solution to their problem.

We actually have the same opinion here. I remember when Napster got sued out of business. Whilst the record labels were dedicating their time and resources to that, Apple slipped in the back door and changed the game with iTunes.