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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.

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  1. Hmmm... by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm thinking those shysters running Prenda are in for a world of pain. Let us hope they hire lawyers just as depraved as they are.

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  2. So, what does that mean if it is true? by Derekloffin · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does that mean those upload are now legal since they actually uploaded them? Or are they still illegal due to some loophole? Or, as I recall, is it that Prenda didn't have the rights in the first place so they actually committed copyright infringement too in uploading them?

    1. Re:So, what does that mean if it is true? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Usually the companies that hires honey pot makers will have some sort of legal agreement allowing them special privilege to distribute. In short, they're given privilege to upload but you are not given privilege to download. That type of thing. Honeypots themselves are legally questionable, which is probably what the FBI is investigating. That gets into legal territory that I'm not well versed in.

  3. Re:Logs ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

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

    Yes clearly the TPB founders were rich as hell, living a life of luxury eating pizza and drinking redbull in the basement where they were arrested.

    Perhaps TPB has been commercialized and makes more money now, but I saw statements that they were making a lot of money even before the raid and as the trials have shown there was no money to get from Mr. Warg, Sunde and Neij. That fourth guy that they framed because he was Neijs former boss had some money, but not related to TPB.
    It looks a lot like the claim that they are making a lot of money is BS from the prosecution to be able to motivate the raid by placing it in the legal category related to "commercial scale".