--Elbert Hubbard
This thread will be my little corner, like thee kult leader's corner.
Here's something from the Pirate Bay blog:
12 million and counting
Good news everybody!
Some days ago we hit 12 million peers! It's not long since we reached 10 million so it's really amazing to see this happening already. What we want you to do is to spread the word to your friends and make more people share files! Let's break 15 million - and 20!
Twelve million peers! WOW! According to Internet World Stats, Australia has 19,353,462 Internet users (March 2008) - that means a group - a Global Pirate Network - that is 63% the size of Australia's net population, is online RIGHT NOW, committed to the complete, unfettered sharing of all digital information, copyright and law be damned. That's pretty amazing to me.
It gets less exciting when you see what most people are sharing: bad tv shows, porn movies and ms windows... but still... pretty cool. I give the Pirate Bay kids props (and also the Swedish government to some degree for harboring the Pirate Bay) for taking on the leviathan of big money media head on, with such aplomb, and elan.
"'Intellectual property is the oil of the twenty first century" -Mark Getty, chairman Getty Images