Originally Posted by
Ragdollmaster
This is just corporate greed. The companies are suing because they want more money to give million dollar bonuses to their employs who do nothing- sure, what's it matter if a few people who run a website go to jail and have to pay? I love how they're not suing the people who posted up the actual torrents which broke copyright laws, but instead the guys who just set up the biggest file sharing and hosting site in the world. This is like suing e-Bay because someone on there tries to sell child porn. Well, not exactly, but you get the point.
It would cause public outrage, maybe to the point of major scale riots, or at least a lot of angry letters to the government, if the verdict stuck. Chances are it won't due to the whole immunity thing, but governments have done stupider things before.
eh, The people who run TPB knew long in advance that they were doing something that could land them in trouble. And to say that this whole issue is pinned on "corporate greed" may be a tad short sighted.
They want to stop piracy, so they take out the medium through which piracy is most heavily run. Its like when they bust drug dealers, they don't go after the little guy on the corner, but the big guy making the whole operation possible.
As for public outrage, I am fairly certain no one will care. In part do to apathy, but also and maybe more-so because no matter how you slice this, TPB is used for theft on a very large scale, and most people consider theft to be wrong enough to punish.