<story><title>“Prison is a bit like copyright”, says jailed Pirate Bay founder</title><url>http://senficon.eu/2014/08/prison-is-a-bit-like-copyright-peter-sunde/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bane</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s interesting to contemplate that all this is not about TPB relieving anybody of their property, but the possibility of preventing somebody from making the maximum amount of money possible off of their property. TPB doesn&amp;#x27;t even host copyrighted material, and the access they grant to it requires &lt;i&gt;just&lt;/i&gt; enough technical knowhow that most people don&amp;#x27;t even bother and just pay for netflix and itunes.&lt;p&gt;Under no conceivable legal system has TPB violated any law (though TPB&amp;#x27;s users may have). The closest analogy I can think of is putting the mayor of a city into prison because there are people in the city who might break the law, and properly running city services and having functional roads, public transport, property title management, etc. enables them to break the law slightly more easily.</text></comment>
<story><title>“Prison is a bit like copyright”, says jailed Pirate Bay founder</title><url>http://senficon.eu/2014/08/prison-is-a-bit-like-copyright-peter-sunde/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mike-cardwell</author><text>That description does not live up to the image I had of Scandinavian prisons. Although I suppose an 8 month sentence will never be about rehabilitation and can only be used as punishment.</text></comment>