Have you heard about The Pirate Bay? Options

[mipadi]

Four of the guys behind the The Pirate Bay, the largest torrent tracker in the world, were found guilty of being "accessories to copyright infringement", and sentenced to 1 year in jail and a $3.56 million fine. There are a lot of subtleties in this case. For example, The Pirate Bay's servers only enabled people to share copyrighted files; no copyrighted material actually passed through the servers. Does merely enabling the distribution of copyright materials make a server administrator an "accessory to copyright infringement"? Are copyright laws becoming outdated? Is this an example of a court bowing to corporate pressure over the good of society, or is sharing music and movies inherently immoral?

[queen]

i'm so sick of the buy vs download-for-free debate. what do people actually want to happen? that none of these musicians/artists get paid for selling their art? there are two extremes: 1. to never pay for music 2. to "legally" obtain them, regardless of buying the actual CD or buying digital formats. there can never be a grey area, because so far i don't see any actual legal way to enforce it.