Thanks for the heads up about this site. However, it is our policy to keep links to these sites out of the forums, that is why I have edited your post.

We most definitely encourage people to make the community aware of font piracy, but we'd rather not become the starting point for people to access these sites.

Thanks!

Have any of you been following the trial in Sweden against the Pirate Bay people? Amazingly, the first day the charges were dropped by 50%. I haven't heard anything since - have you?

Day 10 - http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-trial-day-10-calls-for-jail-time-...

Preceding days are covered there too, should be easy to find.

All in all, the prosecutors don't have a chance. If TPB is found guilty, then any other search engine is at fault for the exact same reasons. RIAA/MPAA's only argument is that TPB doesn't cooperate with them in removing "unwanted material" (while Google allegedly does), but until there's a law that tells TPB to do that, they are in the clear.

It's really interesting how all this plays out.

The Washington State National Guard are amassing on the border of Ikea in Renton. If things don't go well they'll move in and occupy the building - they have a map showing the short-cuts so as to avoid department to department hand to hand fighting.

> Russia caved on pirate sites

I can assure you that this is simply not true. Even the closure of the infamous allofmp3.com was a staged farce. It was closed alright, but it reopened under a different name in A DAY and it is still in operation.

Also keep in mind that bulling Sweden or shutting down TPB won't help the cause. The technology is out of the bottle and it effectively invalidated established licensing methods. There is simply no going back to the old ways. That's pretty much like giving people a taste of driving a car and then forcing them back on a donkey. It ain't going to work, scaremongering or not.

Oh, certainly. That's why I said it was interesting to see how it all develops :)

There is simply no going back to the old ways. That’s pretty much like giving people a taste of driving a car and then forcing them back on a donkey.

Actually, someday we will run out of oil. We will probably need to find an alternative. So I'm not sure about that analogy. ;-)

Anyway, just because something is being pirated, doesn't mean that EVERYONE will go running to get pirated wares, digital or not. In New York City, I see people selling pirated DVDs and knock-off items all the time, but the bona fide items also do good business.