Finnish Anti-Piracy Site Pirates Thepiratebay Content

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @05:01AM from the it's-fair-use-when-we-do-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Finnish copyright lobby TTVK Ry (which earlier ordered the artist promotion site The Promo Bay to be censored as 'thepiratebay subpage' before later admitting that it's legal, and also got the police to confiscate a 9-year-old's Winnie-the-Pooh laptop on suspicion of having illegally downloaded a single album) launched an anti-piracy website: http://piraattilahti.fi./. The site closely resembles The Pirate Bay, and if you take a closer look, you'll notice that CSS has been directly copied from thepiratebay.se, complete with the original site name in comments (http://piraattilahti.fi/css/css.css, pastebin mirror). Of course, one interesting question is: how on Earth did they manage to pirate The Pirate Bay content, considering that they managed to get court orders for major ISPs to censor access to The Pirate Bay?"

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In the words of South Park by SirGeek · 2013-02-13 05:05 · Score: 4, Funny

"They are ABOVE the law !"

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UPS Sucks
Re:Arson, terrorism and jaywalking by Anonymous Coward · 2013-02-13 08:41 · Score: 2, Funny

So, let me get this right... CSS takes as much time and effort to produce and is as directly profitable as movies
Man, making movies is waaay easier than CSS. When was the last time you heard a director complain that his new flick is Gone With the Wind on Sony TVs and Terminator 2 on Panasonics?
And don't get me started about profitability. Of course movies are more profitable. See how CSS authors need way more protection than movie makers? They endure such hardship and then make hardly any money!