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The Pirate Bay Is Being Sued Again
BuR4N writes with news that 10 US movie companies have filed a suit in Swedish civil court seeking to shut down The Pirate Bay and impose a fine on its three former operators, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde, as well as the site's bandwidth supplier. Speaking to TorrentFreak, Sunde said, "It's another day in the whole soap opera of TPB. They're suing us in Stockholm where none of us live. They're suing us over something which we don't own. I think the most funny part of the whole suit is that they just write: 'Reservella is a company run by Fredrik Neij' — out of 40 pages of paper that's all they have to say, and it's so wrong. They have no paperwork to back it up." Meanwhile, plans for The Pirate Bay to be sold to Global Gaming X seem to have stalled.
I'm sure it's only a matter of time before the EU imposes a fine on these movie companies for anti-competitive behavior.
"Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad." [Ecclesiastes 7:3]
More big media companies going after money. Maybe it is just my thought but why can't American companies just bother the Americans and not everyone else. This is why people hate us!
This is why people hate us? I thought it was because we peed on their rug.
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
Wow. In highschool, I always thought expanding a 3-page term-paper into a 4-page term-paper was kinda rough, but could always be done by tweaking the font-size (ie. 13pt instead of 12pt) or line-spacing (ie. 2.1 instead of standard double-spacing)... but turning 8 words into a 40 page document?!? I am humbled.
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Well, that rug did really tie the room together.
-=JML=-
I bet TPB could make a killing selling the rights to this saga/soap opera/farce to Hollywood to make into a movie. ...and then they could index the torrent for it.
mmmm...forbidden donut
Calling it piracy was a massive mistake.
Piracy sounds totally bad ass, second only to Ninjas. White label burned discs, labelled in sharpie are cooler than the Fonz.
They are never going to get rid of this image now. Here is an anti piracy video for your enjoyment.
I have modpoints, I'll mod this up!
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
It's not the stealing itself that's wrong. Stealing is perfectly ok. It's the lack of having a commision from a sovereign nation. Or these days, a sovereign corporation. That's what makes a pirate a pirate.