The Pirate Bay - 9 years and still bloody runnin (opens in new tab)

The Underground Railroad. Prohibition. Hush-A-Phone. The Communications Decency Act. Crypto export regulations.

Breaking DRM.

Actually, if the app I just bought off the app store was a "can of tomatoes", couldn't I use it on any device of my choosing, give it to my friend or include it as part of my estate as a gift to my children?

The absurdity is that we are consumers not customers. We have no rights except the bare minimum. We are sold on the dream and yet we will all experience a rude awakening (this part is never advertised).

Sounds great. The big bad record companies can't treat music like a bag of crisps. Neither can independent artists. Neither can Notch, because a game is no more like a bag of crisps than a CD track.

There is no "FOSS", Free Software is software which respects the users freedom, Open-Source software is software which allow the ability to study the source code(not that some Open-Source licenses is kinda like Free Software licenses too, but some are even similar to non-free software). They are two completely different things. Yes, I support FSF and GNU more than TPB of course.

Typically that's part of belonging to a community.

Are you morally free to kill your guards if you are in prison through a failure of the judicial system? I don't think you are.

How about if you are in a death camp, where your government has not made a mistake, but is executing its legislatively determined plan of genocide? I think you are morally free to kill your guards in that case.

I also think you are morally free to rob a store for medical supplies during a natural disaster, but not morally free to rob a bank to pay for a relative's life-saving surgery.

When to break the law should be a conscious decision, consistent with some framework of ultimate costs and benefits to yourself, your society and beliefs, not merely opportunism or a universal refusal to ever defer to the rest of the community's decisions.

I'm not the OP, but here is my opinion. As a rule of thumb I don't support illegal activities. Why would I? Most of the laws I agree with, like no murder/rape/robbery. However some laws I'm against. Like the public drinking ban in Norway, why can't I have a beer by the lake?

And on the topic of media industries vs. file sharing. I haven't really made up my mind. Especially after the media industry brought tanks and fighter jets to a knife fight.

I support any activity that fits into my own set of moral rules.

Some activities are illegal but I support them because I don't see them as immoral. Other activities are perfectly legal but I don't support them because I see them as immoral.

I believe that, in general, supporting the law is good. Even in case of laws one deems silly. Even in a country where the lawmaking is somewhat corrupt.

Getting picky about which laws I obey would contribute towards social climate of not respecting the law in general. There are countries like that and their societies suffer as a result.

On the other hand for some laws the benefits of breaking them outweigh the above downsides.

I dislike illegal activities but I don't think many things around this is illegal. Note that TPB doesn't host any illegal copies, they doesn't distribute any either. The only illegal is the users themselfs.

I don't know why you are downvoted. This is a valid question.

Interresting distinction. Raises the question why we are prohibiting things that are not malum in se.

At least not all of them - I can see the page without problems (Germany).

Try https://piratereverse.info/

The Netherlands as well.

fax, really?

Lol, Enta. I bailed on them when they cut my connection after one of those silly letters from US lawyers, because my wife had downloaded "Nurse Betty" here in UK.

Now i'm on Virgin, on a much faster connection. piratebay is "blocked" but i just use one of the 99 mirrors around and life is good.

(http://fucktimkuik.org)

Easier to use one of the many proxies, like the one run by the Pirate Party: https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/

Here's a big proxy list: http://proxybay.info

It makes perfect sense. ISPs don't want to block their customers, so they do the least they could get away with doing.