Torrents on Trial
The trial against The Pirate Bay, a popular torrent sharing website, began yesterday in Sweden. The suit was brought against them by all the usual big media players, who allege that the founders of The Pirate Bay are guilty of promoting copyright infringement and making a business out of stealing others’ works. The defense given by the owners of the site is that they only provided a service that could be used for legitimate or illegitimate sharing. Their offices were raided and their servers were seized, but the owners wasted no time in getting the service back up and running from servers in another country.
I mean come on though, with a name likeThe Pirate Bay, don’t you expect to get in trouble sooner or later? The question being settled here is expected to set a precedent, however, in the way that torrent sites are treated when they are accused of allowing illegal file sharing. The media companies are suing for about 10.6 million euros, or about $13 million dollars.
Fortunately there is still people making good music. Sandman from the re-up gang is on his job, spending 10 hours a day in the studio with super producer Tek, and they are making GREAT music. Go to http://www.yeahhhcannons.com/ to get his last 3 mixtapes, Ginormous, Philadelphia Ego, and Number One Suppliya. Nino Bless is beginning to drop lyrical gems al over the internet. Saigon and Statik Selektah got their mixtape dropping soon (thank God). J.Period just dropped a CLASSIC Q-Tip mixtape. Slaughterhouse got a mixtape dropping soon. Jay Rock and DJ Noodles dropped “Coming soon 2 a hood near you”, a great mixtape. Dub Floyd dropped “I do it for Hip Hop” a great compilation of Luda, Jay-Z, and Nas. Donny Goines continues to hit us with nice tracks on a consistent basis through his email blast. So we at Foundation want to say thank you to all these DJ’s and MC’s for making great music. We see you!!
