An interesting legal battle is happening right now. The major US media companies have set their lawyers on Bit Torrent websites which are a new generation (Napster being the first) of Peer 2 Peer (P2P) file sharing networks.
The focus right now is on the massive ThePirateBay.org website which is run and located in Sweden. The American's are getting nowhere because -
Torrent websites do not handle copyrighted material, they just hold files which in turn point to possible copyrighted material held on other peoples computers. No Swedish law is therefore being broken
The band of Swedish nerds behind the site don't care about the lawyers or their threats. So much so that they reprint their email replies which are often hilarious - read the correspondence
The outcome to the above is not so important to most people but the battle will be interesting to watch. As technology makes the world smaller we're likely to see far more of these problems emerge alongside the US trying to bully smaller countries into accepting their way of thinking.
Some would argue though that the natural and inbuilt aggressiveness of US corporations isn't doing them any favours.
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