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FBI Wants Pirate Bay Logs For Criminal Investigation Into Copyright Trolls

Posted by timothy on from the you-gotta-problem-with-that? dept.

the simurgh writes: It has been revealed today that In the past few months, two of the Pirate Bay co-founders have been repeatedly questioned by Swedish authorities, acting on behalf of the FBI. The internet now has clear evidence that Prenda is indeed being investigated by the U.S. Government for uploading their own copyrighted content in torrents placed onto The Pirate Bay, for the sole purpose of creating a honeypot trap to sue over pirated downloads.

3 of 84 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Logs ? by h33t+l4x0r · · Score: 3, Informative

    Piratebay keeps track of uploaders. What's stupid about that?

  2. Re:Hmmm... by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 4, Informative

    Oh. Prenda Law, the qunitessential copyright trolls.

  3. Re:Logs ? by known_coward_69 · · Score: 1, Informative

    TPB is a huge money making machine making money off advertising. they weren't doing it for a noble purpose