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MPAA Seeks $15 Million From The Pirate Bay

Posted by Soulskill on from the pushing-their-luck dept.

praps writes "Having tasted blood with its victory over TorrentSpy, the MPAA is now stepping up its attack on The Pirate Bay. The association is claiming damages of over $15 million, based on The Pirate Bay's distribution of four films and a TV series — Harry Potter, The Pink Panther, Syriana, Walk the Line and the first season of Prison Break. The Swedish court is unlikely to be as generous as the one in California, although the four Pirate Bay founders are already facing charges of being accessories to breaking copyright law." TorrentSpy, in the meantime, has declined to pay the settlement awarded to the MPAA on Wednesday. In addition to appealing the decision, they have filed for bankruptcy.

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  1. Re:The Marketplace by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just to point out:

    We are not "the consumer". We are nerds who participate in friendly discussion on an Internet News Site. That means that we are just a tiny, microscopic fraction of all consumers everywhere (or, in this case, in the US) and, as such, have no power over the rest of the consumers. Thus, preaching like "Vote with your wallets!" HERE will not accomplish anything - we already know this (though most of us probably don't care). The only thing we CAN do is raise awareness - and somehow, I don't see any big protest signs on the streets criticising MAFIAA for their actions.

    To sum it up: Why don't we actually DO something about it, not stand idle and repeat the old phrases that every one of us heard a dozen times?

    (Reply: Because you have Linux kernels for brains :)

    There. All fixed.

    You're all a bunch of fucking followers. You can't think for yourselves, so you jump onto any bandwagon you can, just to try to part of a group. You heard someone bashing MS, and thought "Wow, they're, like, soooooo fucking kewl, man, cuz they're, like, against society", so you started regurgitating their arguments, like they were your own. You've been doing it for so long, that now you actually believe they're true. How long has Linux been around? You haven't seemed to raise anyone's awareness of that yet. If it was that good, dontcha think it would speak for itself? What the hell makes you think you can defeat the RIAA/MPAA?

    So, here we go again, regurgiting the same old arguments:

    Whiney McFaggot: Why should they, like, be able to profit for the rest of their lives off of, like, one work, man? It's, like, not fair.
    Me: I don't know but, wouldn't it help if you first explained why they shouldn't be able to?

    Whiney McFaggot: It's not, like, theft, because I'm not depriving the owner of anything. You can't prove that they, like, lost a sale because I downloaded it illegally.
    Me: Right, I can't prove a sale has been lost, just like you can't prove that the sale will actually take place. So, so how about we just call it theft, up until the point that you've actually paid for it?

    Whiney McFaggot: The MAFIAA's are, like, nothing but a bunch of theives, like, stealing from the artists.
    Me: Umm, didn't they both enter into a contract, where all the terms were laid out beforehand? All parties knew what they were getting into, and nobody forced them to sign on the dotted line. And why do you use the term stealing when the MAFIAA's do it, but not when you do it?

    Whiney McFaggot: Taken to a, like, logical conclusion, like, this means that, like, remembering a, like, song is, like, copyright violation.
    Me: STFU, retard!! That's not the spirit of the law.

    Whiney McFaggot: Like, I'm, like, not, like, a, like, lawyer, but, like, when you, like, . . .
    Me: Stop right there. Yeah, I know you're not a lawyer. So, stop trying to twist the law in your favor. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse.

    Whiney McFaggot: Like, like, their, like, like, like, like, business model, like, like, like, needs, like, to, like, like, change, so, like, I, like, like, can, like, get, like, like, like, more, like, free, like, shit, like, man, like, dude, like, like . . .
    Me (clenching fist): **Pow!!!**
    Whiney McFaggot: Wuu-Wuuu-Wuuu-Waaaaaahhhhh!! I got what I deserved!!!

    All you fucking thieving nerds know who you are. You're all just trying to ease your collective consciense and justify the effortless nature of your illegal activities. It's kinda funny how we never heard any of these arguments before the internet. How come none of you were ever brave enough to advocate stealing CDs from your local record store? Before the internet came about, I never so many people complaining about the c