I'm not going to ever waste my time arguing with gideon, because he is like a guy in prison on a life sentence that spends all day in the prison library, trying desperately to find a technicality to get his case back in court without any real understanding of the law. I will say this though, and that is there is a real climate change happening in regards to piracy, and it's a matter of when, not if, the outdated piracy laws are revisited and the end comes for the vast majority of pirate sites.
There was an interesting special on 60 Minutes on CNBC about piracy last night, and I was unaware of all the new laws on the horizon. With the amount of lobbyists Hollywood, the RIAA, software companies, etc. have in Washington a change is coming. I also wasn't aware that France had passed strict piracy laws that could cause you to lose your internet and put you in jail. When the day comes that the US government decides to take a special interest in piracy it will get really interesting. They have already shown the online gambling community that they will seize domain names and bank accounts and find you and put you in prison on whatever technicality they can find, and find you in whatever shit country you are hiding. A change is coming, and it might not be today, it might not be this year, but it is coming, and all the Torrent Freak cut and paste bullshit arguments in the world can't stop it...
