Jul 232009
 

I guess you’re familiar with The Pirate Bay. It’s a torrent tracker. Under the law in their country, they are not doing anything illegal. But the funny thing with internet is, that it has no boundaries in the traditional way. So legal in one country, can be illegal in another, still you can connect to the content anyway. Mind you, the content on TPB is not illegal. Sure, there are torrents pointing to illegal material, but TPB is not hosting that material. Until it’s illegal to point to illegal software or other copyrighted digital content, they just use the holes in the law.

In every country there are numerous holes in the tax laws. Some countries even put tax on items that already are taxed. Nobody ever complains. The rich just use these holes to get richer and the government just keeps increasing the taxes and nobody ever complains.

It’s a strange world we live in.