Intellectual Property Laws are Becoming Harder to Enforce, and Easier to Avoid

January 17, 2007 – The Tracker ThePirateBay of Bittorrent, recently said that will try a new country to work from. However, the news here is that ThePirateBay has chosen to buy their own country instead of identification of one with the law on the Rights of Author relaxed. They found SeaLand, a micro-nation who 's sovereignty is in dispute and has launched the Web site BuySealand.com to try to raise the money to buy it for the sum of 8 digits or more (10 million, or more). However, the implication of such a action is clear: "We are the bay of pirate and we know that what we are doing is illegal, so we are buying our own country to define our own laws." This is something different from their traditional defence of "We're not doing anything illegal." The debate of legality aside, the collection of funds should be interesting to look at, with the social and ethical powerful if it is able. Consider the implications of ThePirateBay organically which is supported by a large number of internet users rather that their money should be for the benefit of PirateBay-rather than in the hands of copyright owners original video, music, books and software that are finally loading programmes being with the PirateBay 'service s. The irony is that the same people who are metal giving the money, are the first to skip the boos when the whole violation of copyrights against the apple, developers and web designers. Moralmente, it seems that internet users have double standards stringent. My discussion here is simple: We are seeing a trend where intellectual property rights are decreasing in value and we are becoming harder to enforce. This is party due to the widespread prevalence of piracy, but also because of potential services such as PirateBay to counter governments and define their own laws.

Jordan Willms

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