What legalese?

[vanessarama]

doidydoidy pointed out the awesomeness of paragraph 70 of the judgement in Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v iiNet Limited:

To use the rather colourful imagery that internet piracy conjures up in a highly imperfect analogy, the file being shared in the swarm is the treasure, the BitTorrent client is the ship, the .torrent file is the treasure map, The Pirate Bay provides treasure maps free of charge and the tracker is the wise old man that needs to be consulted to understand the treasure map.

I lost it when the wise old man was brought up. Cowdroy J, you hip young thang you.

Comments

[msilverstar]

And a bad analogy at that, as the file is not really a zero-sum thing: one person having it doesn't keep anyone else from having it.

Not that I want to defend content piracy, I very much want to make sure that creators receive value for their work.

Intellectual property issues: a problem that can never be entirely "solved"