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The Pirate Bay Files Suit Against Big Media
Join the Pirate Party writes "Having found the necessary proof via the leaked MediaDefenders documents, the Pirate Bay is filing suit against the big record and movie labels operating in Sweden who have allegedly been paying professional hackers, saboteurs and DDoSers to destroy their trackers. They also claim to have filed a police report."
If the suit was lodged on talk like a pirate day...
Task Mangler
...I still don't get it. Could somebody re-phrase that as a car analogy, please?
Basilisk Digital
It's more like suing the guy who keeps breaking into your house and destroying all your hydroponic gardening equipment.
the difference is big media pays money to the government... the real terrorists are the people who steal intellectual property and make it available for others free of charge.
i think i either saw something put out by the **AA or one of those commercials they play before movies that basically equated people who pirate music and movies to drug lords and terrorists.
please me, have no regrets.
"No, its not! Drugs are illegal, music is not."
I thought music was a drug?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Like improving my grammar.
whoosh... the sound of the subtle sarcasm of my previous post flying over your head...
please me, have no regrets.
Then we will send Fingers, Lucky, and Guido after to to cause harm.
Jesus.. I can't think of anything more scary to opening my door to body parts, a dwarf, and a python programmer.
I wrote my first program at the age of six, and I still can't work out how this website works.
Imagine you buy a car, then Pirate Bay sues Big Media for harassing their site systematically with the help of mercenary hackers.
Phew, it was easy...
Much more clear now, don't you think so?
It is your civic duty to get 100 of your closest personal friends together, dress up like pirates complete with eye patches, and each buy a ticket into the same movie. When you get into the theatre, start yelling "Arr!" and "Shiver me timbers!" and other such things. If they try to throw you out on the grounds that you're a pirate, start with the following questionnaire:
1.) Do we currently possess any stolen property? This may include such things as large chests, sacks full of coins, sacks full of other property, or anything not included on this list but that may reasonably be construed as the personal property of another person not lawfully acquired.
2.) Have we attempted to acquire any property that you may reasonably believe to be that of the theatre's? This may include money from the tills, employees, food, tickets, and hard copies of movies.
3.) Are there any ocean piers about which we may potentially raid after the successful conclusion of the movie?
4.) If so, do you see any ships flying a "Jolly Roger" flag of some sort with large square sails and many cannon and other weapons of war sticking out of them?
5.) Are we in a landlocked city? To clarify, is it even possible for us to raid from a ship? Note that this eliminates any possibility of us pirating.
If they continue to pursue you as pirates, start shouting about discrimination against seamen and how outrageous it is that they could suspect you of theft while on land. Continually claim that you are "water-only" pirates and that the land lubbers with video cameras are not true pirates and do not have sea legs. This part is why it's important to have a large number of co-conspirators.
And remember, you can't spell conspiracy without pirates.
SRSLY.
It doesn't much matter whether or not it's legal in Sweden, as the site itself is based in Sealand.
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Somehow, I really don't think betting dollars to doughnuts can be used to support the basis of your argument. I'm not saying you presmise is incorrect, but come on man.
Piracy is not steel-ing!!
Pirates generally commandeer ships and steel your shit(and hten most likely kill you)
Arr etc..