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Finnish Anti-Piracy Site Pirates Thepiratebay Content
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?"
The main picture is a span that says "The Pirate Bay".
Also, the ship doesn't look like it's really sinking, I guess they just took a random picture of a ship and tilted it.
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There is an interview in finnish newspaper from Antti Kotilainen Executive Director of TTVK ry http://www.iltasanomat.fi/digi/art-1288540010300.html
Translated interview:
TTVK ry Executive Director Antti Kotilainen, so why it happend like this?
– In here we are trying to educate and tell people that there are legal options
But the webpage is copied from The Pirate Bay. When you check pages source code you can see the original refences to the Piratebay.
- If you see something in there, then we have to see what we are going to do. That is what we are looking for, so the people would start to use legal services
So what kinda message are you sending? Isn't there some ideological problem when you are copying from copyers?
- There is no ideological problem. If you watch carefully then you can see that there is a picture of sinking pirate-ship.
So what are you going to do to the page? Are you gonna leave it as it is?
- I don't know the technology so good that I can comment on that question.
It's not pirated content. Ever notice the Kopimi link at the bottom of TPB pages? http://www.kopimi.com/kopimi/
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From the Kopimi page:
kopimi (copyme), symbol showing that you want to be copied.
How about a complete non-story.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Note that: A) Finland (along with other countries) doesn't strictly speaking have copyright; they have *authorship rights*, ie a set of rights awarded to you as an author. The right to limit copying of your work is one of those rights. This right can be sold, transferred or waived. B) A *different* "authorship right" is something that the law more or less explicitly calls "moral right" and this is something that you *can't* waive. This protects your right to not have your work used in a manner that you disagree with. This right is independent of whether the copying of your work was legal.
So it doesn't matter whether you think copyright is a moral right. Finnish laws DOES award something called moral rights to authors, and that is what the post you commented referred to.