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lol toten sud je coraz vacsia komedia: Movie industry lawyer Monique Wadsted thought she’d learned from the Pirate Bay’s support gathering mechanism via social networking sites, and decided she had what it takes to pull off a similar stunt. She asked her friend and novelist Carina Rydberg for help, who then posted a call-to-arms on a Facebook group for Swedish authors. Now, perhaps this is nothing unusual. As the digital society has progressed, not all authors have recognized the marketing opportunities of file-sharing. What is interesting, however, is that Carina Rydberg’s real stance on file-sharing differs dramatically from her Facebook post. Swedish blogger projO published postings from Carina Rydberg from earlier discussions in the same Facebook group, where she confessed that she was a registered user at The Pirate Bay. So why is she a member there? “Because I want to watch movies that can neither be rented anymore nor bought on the Internet. I want to read books that are out of print and will cost you 750 British pounds on eBay. For that reason, I want The Pirate Bay to stay. At the moment, I’m trying to download John Schlesinger’s ‘The Day of the Locust’; it takes time and it’s not even certain I’ll get a copy that is watchable - but at the same time I have no idea how to get the damn flick any another way…” http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-prosecution-hires-hypocrite-pirate-author-for-pr-090223/#comments |
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