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The Pirate Bay Facing "Old Fashioned" Pressure

Posted by kdawson on from the brown-shoed-squares-in-the-dead-of-night dept.

Jety writes "Ars Technica has an article reporting that The Pirate Bay is facing legal pressure from a new front. A wealthy musician with a track record for going head-to-head with record labels and little kids is now joining the queue to take a legal swing at TPB. What I find particularly interesting about this article is the description of the 'camera-toting investigators following [The Pirate Bay admins] around in cars marked with Danish plates.' One TPB admin asks, '"What do they think they can find out by following us around? Everything we do is digital.'"

8 of 415 comments (clear)

  1. Re:All the "piracy" is digital, sure. by daybot · · Score: 5, Informative

    If I were them, I'd be very careful about jaywalking

    Just like the piracy laws in Sweden, there is no such crime as jaywalking. Sheesh - and they call the US "land of the free"!

  2. Re:All the "piracy" is digital, sure. by CRCulver · · Score: 4, Informative

    Tags on furniture forbid the seller from removing them, the consumer can do what he wants with them.

  3. Re:Maybe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Pirate bay servers are distributed across several nations and the TPB core admins typically neither own nor have physical access to them.

  4. Re:Because "Prince" == Asshole by dosius · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nah, that's been Prince's trademark since at least the early 80s. A lot of his song lyrics use kw3lspeak, e.g., "I wanna do it 2 night, baby, I wanna do it 2 U" is an actual line, with original spelling, from 777-9311 (which he wrote for The Time).

    He was doing it before there WAS SMS.

    -uso.

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    What you hear in the ear, preach from the rooftop Matthew 10.27b
  5. Re:Maybe... by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think they would be more interested in personal assets that could be liquidated for damages, not the servers.

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    Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
  6. Re:Maybe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    But harrassing or even incarcerating the currenty TPB admins won't shut TPB down is the point. In fact it would probably increase publicity for it and encourage more people to step up.

  7. Re:Maybe... by Dun+Malg · · Score: 4, Informative

    The truth is that not many bands make much of anything from album sales due to shady practices by the record companies.

    Prove it.

    Christ, it's not like the way record contracts work are a state secret. There's even an article in How Stuff Works detailing everything. Artists have complained about it for years. Record companies have a laundry list of "mitigating factors" that they use to rationalize the status quo. Christ, it's like someone mentioned that the sky is blue and now you're demanding a picture. Get a fucking clue. Google "record contract" and read, you lazy fuck.
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    If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
  8. Re: PAN newsreader.... by bwochinski · · Score: 5, Informative

    Did some research into this, since I was all for hearing about lawyers making fools of themselves.

    However, I don't think that actually happened... See FAQ 1.5 at
    http://web.archive.org/web/20010803004755/http://pan.rebelbase.com/faq.html (as of Aug 3, 2001)