I will join every other blog and newspaper that covers technology and throw in my two cents on The Pirate Bay trial. And I don’t know about you, but I am conflicted on what I want to have happen, and what I know should happen.

While the idea of anyone being able to upload content, and The Pirate Bay not hosting any of the torrents, makes a case of deniability, we all know that it really wasn’t enough to save them. The RIAA/MPAA will stop at nothing to keep their hands on as much money as they can. This was a battle that was a must win for them to be able to have a chance on controlling the future of legal battles against P2P networks.

I don’t know about you but I have downloaded a ton of stuff from torrents. The real problem is most of it was legal. From Linux distros, to trial editions of programs that smartly use P2P to distribute. I am afraid this is going to open the door on law suits trying to attack the P2P networks.

Now Google better start paying attention to this. Everyone is already pointing to the fact that everything The Pirate Bay hosted can just as easily be found on Google. And even more to that point I will say that every time I need a torrent, i usually if not almost always just use Google to find it.

So while I can see why the “Mafia” fought so hard to win this case, and even some of their side to the story, I still hope for appeals course to nix this case.

Here are some other good articles over the story:

The Pirate Bay Guilty; Jail for File-Sharing Foursome

Why Google Is The New Pirate Bay