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...notion: that artifacts that carry a copyright should not simply be lifted or stolen - that their use requires permission and compensation. That definition of intellectual property may appear almost quaint in these days when it is easy to find almost anything on the Internet and just as simple to download. But the founders of ThePirateBay.org - three geeky Swedish would-be cultural revolutionaries who were funded in part by user donations - are in the process of finding out whether they face prison time for facilitating that process for their users...
...companies that own the music and movies that The Pirate Bay's customers are downloading see it differently. "I certainly don't see them as romantic pirates: It's out and out theft," John Kennedy, top executive of the international music industry body IFPI, told The Guardian. Big-name artists, too, have weighed in. Prince has threatened to sue, and this week one of the founders of the Swedish super group ABBA denounced the site as a gift to those who want to be "lazy and mean." "It is easier and cheaper to steal than to download legally." Bjorn Ulvaeus...
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...talks so quickly that he's almost untranscribable. "You have a video game about an immigrant discovering himself and losing himself in America - and that's the video game - and then the movies are about a superhero in a metal suit and a car based on a cartoon." (Download TIME's interview with Houser...
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