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TPB Files Police Complaint Against CPIAC for Copying Website

Last week, a Finnish anti-piracy agency copied the CSS and HTML of The Pirate Bay. Today, TPB announced that they have filed a police report and are preparing to sue for copyright infringement: "The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest site for cultural diversity and file sharing, has today (Monday 2013-02-18) reported a suspected crime to the Finnish police. The suspected criminals are the Finnish anti-piracy organization CIAPC (locally known as TTVK). The reason is that CIAPC have copied files from which The Pirate Bay is built, to produce a fraudulent parody site. While The Pirate Bay may have a positive view on copying, it will not stand by and watch copyright enforcing organizations disrespect copyright." The Pirate Bay is also arguing that parody laws do not apply thanks to recent legal precedent.

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  1. Cultural Diversity? by Virtucon · · Score: 4, Funny

    ROFLMAO

    the world’s largest site for cultural diversity

    How is hosting torrents for copyrighted material cultural diversity? I tried to download "Debbie Does Dallas" and the )(*@)(# file was subtitled in Swedish! What good is that? Is that what they mean by "cultural diversity?"

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    Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
  2. go ahead, feed the troll, you hipocrite! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    ...
    hipocrite ...
    hipocrite ...

    goddamn it, what benighted piece of shit browser are you posting from that doesn't have spellcheck on text fields?!!
    The word is hypocrite .
    Your repeated monumental FAILURE at spelling invalidates your whole argument.