Ayiekie Wrote:I said why I thought they should go to jail. You might notice it was before I mentioned their ties to a neo-Nazi, which I mentioned for the exact reason I said ("just in case you think they're nice guys").
Rest assured I don't think they are nice guys, or even sane guys, but I do admire them for sticking to their principles.
Ayiekie Wrote:I did not at any point suggest they should be put in jail for that, or free speech suppressed. Kindly refrain from slanderous assertions to the contrary.E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
I am sorry if I offended you but it is brought up frequently, and I fail to see how it is relevant. Weather they are boyscouts, assholes, chuthulu worshipers, gay, pokemon or whatever really shouldn't matter and the only reason to bring it up is to imply that they are guilty or should recieve a harsher sentence because of X.
Ayiekie Wrote:I mentioned it because it speaks to the quality of their character, and it's not brought up very often because most of the people with interest in the case are extremely biased towards them.
It speaks that they are broadminded enough to accept money from people whose politics they probably disagree with. Somehow I do not see it as a rare trait. As I mentioned it is often brough up, just like the time that they left pictures of a burtal murder(*) up on the tracker which hurt their popularity quite a bit, however I believe they where right to stick to their principles.
I do agree however that almost everyone with an interest in the case is baised towards one side or the other (as is almost always the case), however by my tally the entertainment industry has the most news stories written in it's favor. It's really only sites that explicitly are anti-copyright that seem to support TPB.
(*) In sweden police investigations become public domain after the investigation is over, which is ussualy only used by journalists and such. In this case someone took a copy of that and put it on TPB where it got a few downloads before almost fiziling out. Then there was a hughe media storm over these shocking pictures and it became quite widly distributed, and many people, including the father of the mudred girl asked them to take it down.
They refused on two grounds:
1) Principle: They are opposed to censorship and the files are public domain.
2) Practical: Even if they shut down that torrent within seconds any of the thousands of people who already downloaded it could just put it back up.
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."