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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.
this is a great big fuckup on piratebays part... they're high on confidence or what not. WHat do they want to prove? That copying copyrighted material is illegal? Do they really want to go there?
Very silly idea, and not at all thought through. Unless they did think it through and still determine that this was something worth pretending to pursue.