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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.
They keep throwing arond "They're suing us over something which we don't own" - if I make alot of money through a company I own which is involved with illegal behaviour - selling the company does NOT strip you free from all crimes.
Yeah, they're taking alot of flak from just about everyone around the world, but only because they're so smug about what they're trying to get away with. They're just getting what they deserve.
I hope so. I'm an American and I think the EU needs to come down on our movie/record companies.
Remember TPB had a link right off the home page of correspondence? It was with lawyers from Sony BMG, and other places. Usually it was a legalize Cease and Desist type letter.
The TPB guys would usually respond with some really funny snarky shit. Like "Dear Sirs, here in Sweden we think your shit attitude needs to get bent over a stool."
In some cases, they would piss the other side off so much they would drop the formal language and start spewing, like "you little shits, we're gonna find you and shut your asses down." It was hilarious to read them simply pissing on the leather shoes of expensive lawyers and telling them to fuck off.
Well, you do that enough and you get high on powerful enemy hit lists. Don't kid yourself, power multinationals bought off that Swedish judge and make this into a kangaroo court. It's probably one of the biggest travesties of justice of all time, the slope is so fucking slippery. They may as well sue the IETF or ARIN for giving out IP addresses to enable piracy. That's how egregious the law was twisted for the interests of powerful capitalists.
Now? Now they are laying on the hurt to teach the world a lesson.
Help us EU! You're our only hope! No.. seriously.. Our system of checks and balances resulted in lobbyists writing the checks, and the executive branches appointing justices that fit their political desires. It's pretty sad that we let the record companies tell legislature and the judiciary that it's okay for them to investigate without probable cause, sue citizens into oblivion with numbers that have no grounds in reality, and then turn around and complain that they don't make enough money after screwing the artists.
"BuR4N writes with news that 10 US movie companies have filed a suit"
I hate to break the news to you, but the U.S.A. collapsed economically several years ago. You are currently witnessing the political collapse, as the corporate oligarchs with the help of the Criminals-In-Congress attempt to steal as much money as possible from the U.S. Treasury with corporate bailouts of banks and former flagship U.S. companies ( Chrysler and General Motors).
Enjoy the DOOM!
Yours In Communism,
Kilgore Trout
I find it mildly amusing that this group of movie studios isn't suing TPB on US Soil, no instead these companies have to take their embarrassing freak show of Illegally obtained evidence, overzealous lawyers, and greedy "businessmen" to a country where none of the players reside just to try and "stop the evil criminals". Simply put, enough is enough, I'm not defending TPB, but at the same time I think its safe to assume 3 things - interest in piracy is going to increase even more (stick it to the evil movie companies), America will look even worse in the global view for trying to "police the world" (thank you to those who posted that already), and simply put, if they do manage to stop TPB by some freak coincidence 10 more places will spring up in their place, 'cause you can't stop the signal (yeah ... I couldn't resist the Serenity reference).
Instead of wasting time and resources these companies need to learn to stop fighting the new technology and use it to their advantage - DVD's and digital downloads without DRM (com'on how many ways does it have to be broken before these guys learn that its not working !?), CD's that don't lock up and freeze computers (oooh ooh .. how many people remember this Sony Fiasco ??), DVD's that don't remove your ability to skip previews (yes, I actually own DVD's that prevent you from Skipping the previews), the list goes on and on.
Oh well, my 2 cents on the topic.
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind" - Dr. Seuss
TPB is not impressing me as much as they were.
Would someone tell me why TPB doesn't put up a Unicef tip jar. I would donate. Then we would see a game changer. TPB-shutdown == kids-starving.
British too (and Dr Who is great) - I don't think American acting is better or worse; its just that theres more American "stuff" to pick bad examples from and highlight. Now if you want to see bad acting you should see TV from Latin America. So that begs the question : why is it so popular? I think its more about the culture that surrounds it. One talks with family / friends / work colleagues / radio / internet forums about these shows and it makes you feel part of something. The bad acting or the cardboard sets then become irrelevant.
In the context of the library, the content creator has been paid for every copy purchased by the library and borrowed by the consumer.
In the context of piracy, the content creator has been paid only for the original copy and none of the copies traded by the receivers.
Ascalante: Your bride is over 3,000 years old.
Kull: She told me she was 19!
This is pretty much why I support pirating. Yea, it is stealing, but you know what? Fuck them. They have enough money to run the world and they're still not satisfied. I'm not going to give them one red cent when they're exploiting the work of everyone else while thinking that they deserve everything. Want a solid example of the assholes you think might suffer because of copyright violation? My super sweet 16 (I've never seen a full episode because it gets me so pissed). All those spoiled little shits that cry when they only get 3 fucking sports cars will grow up. And when they do, their shitty little attitude and ineptitude for anything short of doing what it takes to get what they want will stay with them. Quite frankly, holding back their revenue through theft is the only way to truly make a difference, or at least prevent things from getting more sour.
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