The Pirate Bay Seeks Interesting Route To "Pay" Fine

Drivintin is one of many who have written to tell us about how The Pirate Bay has taken an interesting approach to the 30 million SEK fine levied in their recent court case (which they said they wont pay). "The bill inspired anakata to devise a plan involving sending money to Danowsky's law firm, but not to pay the fine of course which they say will never be paid. Anakata's clever plan is called internet-avgift, internet-fee in English. Anakata encourages all Internet users to pay extremely small sums around 1 SEK (0.13 USD) to Danowsky's law firm, which represented the music companies at the Pirate Bay trial. The music companies will not benefit from this, instead it will cost them money to handle and process all the money."

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Re:Paying in Pennies

[aardvarkjoe]

Just because it's "legal tender" doesn't mean they have to accept payment in that form. The notion that businesses have to accept cash in any form is a persistent urban legend.

See http://www.ustreas.gov/education/faq/currency/legal-tender.htm for a long explanation. A relevant quote:

There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise.