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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.'"

4 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: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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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)