In the first part of the guest post, The Pirate Bay’s “Winston” points out the error in thinking by the RIAA’s Mitch Glazier when it comes to copyright “theft.” In Winston’s mind, theft is when person A takes something from person B, so that person B no longer has it. By contrast, if you copy the something, both people still have it and that’s the fundamental idea behind torrenting. The copyright owners still own to the copyright.

He also talks about how jobs aren’t being “stolen” in the US, but rather the technology and music industries need to “evolve” into a more modern form. “Sorry, it’s 2012 not 1912,” as Winston puts it. He also talks about how the RIAA is trying to enforce US-based laws where it really has no jurisdiction. We have to wonder how all of this is going to turn out, since we’re even in a different world than that of the original Napster.

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