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US Lawyers Target Swedish Pirate, and His Unicorn
Chaonici writes "When a Swedish citizen identified as Ryan heard about US movie studio Liberty Media's plan to get copyright infringers to confess and voluntarily pay up, he couldn't stop himself from sending them a
satirical email promising that he will pay 'from the pot of gold I got at the leprechaun at the end of the rainbow', regardless of scathing criticism of the studio from his unicorn. However, despite his location, the jesting nature of the email, and his insistence that he has never downloaded anything for which the studio is suing, Liberty Media's lawyers have taken the 'confession' seriously, and have issued a subpoena to Google for personal information related to Ryan's Gmail account. In a phone call, the legal team affirmed their determination to 'hunt him down, all the way to Sweden if need be.'"
Here's their train of thoughts:
How dare some insignificant worm mock us fancy, bigshot corporate lawyers? That peasant should know his place! Something has to be done to show the cattle who's boss!
They have UNICORNS in Sweden?!
There is no -1 Disagree.
So, BitTorrent users, have you downloaded any Liberty Media movies? If so the company says it is time to hand yourselves in. From 8th February for 14 days, the kind folk at Liberty are offering an amnesty.
I have downloaded a lot of porn. A lot. I'm fairly certain that I may have represented a few percentage points of the entire bandwidth used by porn in a single day.
That being said, I have no idea if I downloaded anything from Liberty Media. In the interests of providing amnesty I think it would behoove them to put up a public website with examples of their copyrighted works. Not the whole things of course, but just small groups of shots. Perhaps the ones that made the most money for them, those being the ones most likely to be pirated.
Note to self: when pulling a similar stunt, claim to be from a fake country, like Lavatruria, Pays-Bonguebongue, or Belgium.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Yeah just asked the guys at piratebay or julian assange, Sweden is completely not a state of the USA. OF course not. Sweden would never roll on to its back and wag its tail like the little bitch she is... :P
yeah im norwegian :D
Don't be silly, have you ever seen a moose wearing a dress?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
But then, so does people calling copyright infringement theft...
I bet if people stop referring to copyright infringement as theft then the people who correct them when they do will stop too.
Next up, Tehcyder criticises the police for investigating a murder as "They only do that every single fucking time there's a murder"