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The Pirate Bay is Here to Stay?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the arrr-me-hearties dept.

vitaly.friedman wrote to mention a Wired article about The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing crewe out of Sweden that thumbs its nose at the MPAA just for kicks and has yet to be shut down. From the article: "The Pirate Bay's legal adviser, law student Mikael Viborg, said the site receives 1,000 to 2,000 HTTP requests per second on each of its four servers. That's bad news for the content industries, which have fired off letter after menacing letter to the site, only to see their threats posted on The Pirate Bay, together with mocking replies. Viborg said that no one has successfully indicted The Pirate Bay or sued its operators in Swedish courts. Attorneys for DreamWorks and Warner Bros., two companies among those that have issued take-down demands to the site, did not return calls for comment."

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  1. Arrrrr by TimeTrav · · Score: 5, Funny

    Arrrrr, ye swabs cannot take back me booty so easily!

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    1. Re:Arrrrr by TimeTrav · · Score: 2, Funny

      The following link is for your enjoyment:

      http://www.tiffman.com/bork.cgi?url=http://yro.sla shdot.org/yro/06/03/14/1323219.shtml

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  2. We demand.. by dotwhynot · · Score: 5, Funny

    We demand that you provide us with entertainment by sending more legal threats. Please? :-)

    1. Re:We demand.. by Jamu · · Score: 5, Funny

      If you are not the intended recipient, you may not read, ...

      Oh crap, I just did. Why didn't they warn me at the start of the message!
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      Who ordered that?
    2. Re:We demand.. by arwel · · Score: 2, Funny

      One of my email signatures goes:

      IMPORTANT - ANTI-DISCLAIMER - This e-mail is not and cannot, by its nature, be confidential. En route from me to you, it will pass across the public Internet, easily readable by any number of system administrators along the way. If you have received this message by mistake, it would be ridiculous for me to tell you not to read it or copy to anyone else, because, let's face it, if it's a message revealing confidential information or that could embarrass me intensely, that's precisely what you'll do. Who wouldn't?
      Likewise, it is superfluous for me to claim copyright in the contents, because I own that anyway, even if you print out a hard copy or disseminate this message all over the known universe. I don't know why so many corporate mail Servers feel impelled to attach a disclaimer to the bottom of every e-mail message saying otherwise.
      If you don't know either, why not e-mail your corporate lawyers and system administrators and ask them why they insist on contributing so much to the waste of bandwidth?

  3. Re:The Atlantic barrier works both ways huh? by Threni · · Score: 2, Funny

    > start a process in Sweden.

    Afghanistan - check.
    Iraq - check.
    Iran - tba.
    Sweden - tba.

  4. No success in Swedish courts by Billosaur · · Score: 5, Funny
    Viborg said that no one has successfully indicted The Pirate Bay or sued its operators in Swedish courts.

    RIAA Lawyer: We are petitioning the court to shut down this illegal operation, called The Pirate Bay, on the grounds they are trafficking in illegally obtained and downloaded material.

    Swedish Judge: Worrrr dooooo ishky dishky mooooovvvviesss kannnnshhhhhh veeeeeeeee downshky looooooodshky?

    RIAA Lawyer: What?

    Swedish Judge: Worrrr dooooo ishky dishky mooooovvvviesss kannnnshhhhhh veeeeeeeee downshky looooooodshky?

    RIAA Lawyer: I don't understand!

    Swedish Judge: Caaaaaaaaasssssshhhh dushmiskked, bork, bork, bork!

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    1. Re:No success in Swedish courts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      I don't know who should be more offended by that post:

      Swedes or the Muppets!

  5. yarh, futurama has it by joe+155 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Too late I realise, my children are my only real treasure...

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  6. Re:The pirates are here to stay by murderlegendre · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's like the war on drugs, except 10x more pointless.

    That's exactly right, Gary.. and the war on drugs was 10X more pointless than the war on poverty, leaving the war on piracy somewhere between 20X and 1000X more pointless than that.

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  7. Re:Sweden vs US Capitalism by drstock · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, soon all americans will be eating freedom meatballs while watching the freedom chef on the muppet show.

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  8. Think about Tom Cruise ... by ta+ma+de · · Score: 2, Funny

    The bay and its band of pirates might eventually damage the finances of Tom Cruise and Scientology ... that can't be tolerated and must be stopped. I can't afford for the cost increases on my e-meter that are sure to come as a result of lost licensing revenue.

  9. Re:How to be popular by Risen888 · · Score: 2, Funny

    If people stop paying to make the movies then that type of movie will not get made in the future.

    So wait a minute...are you saying that I download and distribute, say, 10,000 copies of Legally Blonde, they won't make any more of them? Deal!

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  10. Re:socialist-democratic not communist by fatmal · · Score: 2, Funny

    Except for all the 6'6" women :)

    Yeah, you've got to go up on them!