The Pirate Bay’s press release regarding SOPA
TPB has put up a press release regarding SOPA that summarizes this whole battle against piracy. I didn’t know the story about Edison’s patents, but it seems to be true. It’s hard not to like TPB’s attitude when dealing with this.
The reason they are always complainting about “pirates” today is simple. We’ve done what they did. We circumvented the rules they created and created our own. We crushed their monopoly by giving people something more efficient. We allow people to have direct communication between eachother, circumventing the profitable middle man, that in some cases take over 107% of the profits (yes, you pay to work for them). It’s all based on the fact that we’re competition. We’ve proven that their existance in their current form is no longer needed. We’re just better than they are.