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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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  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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  3. 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!

  4. 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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