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Title: The Pirate Bay files charges against media companies
Post by: Roph on September 23, 2007, 07:50:28 AM
Well this is interesting.

Quote from: The Pirate BayThanks to the email-leakage from MediaDefender-Defenders we now have proof of the things we've been suspecting for a long time; the big record and movie labels are paying professional hackers, saboteurs and ddosers to destroy our trackers.

http://digg.com/tech_news/ThePirateBay_org_files_charges_against_media_companies/

Apparently The Pirate Bay is filing charges against the Swedish correspondents of some of Americas largest entertainment companies due to a leaked e-mail from MediaDefender by MediaDefender-Defenders, containing information pointing to their involvement in a lot of sabotage activities against P2P users among other illegal activities. Hopefully with some media pressure and support from the piracy and copyright movements and organizations over here this will lead somewhere.

There's not much info yet but you can read the whole thing here, and there's a section on it in the MediaDefender article on Wikipedia. There's also some MediaDefender torrents available on The Pirate Bay
Title: Re: The Pirate Bay files charges against media companies
Post by: Kashii on September 23, 2007, 08:05:24 AM
Amerika is dumb. Should just make it legal~
Title: Re: The Pirate Bay files charges against media companies
Post by: Link on September 23, 2007, 08:05:39 AM
So the website that hosts torrents, to illegal stuff, are calling the police  ???
Title: Re: The Pirate Bay files charges against media companies
Post by: &&&&&&&&&&&&& on September 23, 2007, 08:37:07 AM
Quote from: link_999 on September 23, 2007, 08:05:39 AM
So the website that hosts torrents, to illegal stuff, are calling the police  ???

... Yeah, I don't get it either.
Title: Re: The Pirate Bay files charges against media companies
Post by: shadowdude on September 23, 2007, 08:41:42 AM
Quote from: Fred on September 23, 2007, 08:37:07 AM
Quote from: link_999 on September 23, 2007, 08:05:39 AM
So the website that hosts torrents, to illegal stuff, are calling the police  ???

... Yeah, I don't get it either.

Look at it this way, if they find the other companies guilty then they will find the hackers, just gives america more people to throw in jail.
Title: Re: The Pirate Bay files charges against media companies
Post by: Link on September 23, 2007, 08:44:11 AM
I would love to hear what they said to the police,

'Help hackers are destroying our...er...website'

'What are they targeting sir?'

'er...er...pictures...'
Title: Re: The Pirate Bay files charges against media companies
Post by: Roph on September 23, 2007, 09:58:57 AM
QuoteSo the website that hosts torrents, to illegal stuff, are calling the police ???

The pirate bay is a tracker, it merely connects people together, and no copyrighted information ever passes through it. The same goes for .torrent files, they contain only filenames, hash values and IP adresses along with various other bits of misc metadata, none of which can be copyrighted.

TBP only tracks connections and hosts .torrent files.

The Pirate bay is legal within it's own swedish jurisdiction, and arguably legal in other places too. Though the motion picture / recording industry ass. of amerca try to bully their will on them, through sleazy methods or by bribing more congressmen, pulling strings etc etc.

What without question IS illegal are some of the methods that MD / RIAA / MPAA and others have employed to try and shit all over TBP and other torrent systems, hence, interesting to see what'll happen lol ~
Title: Re: The Pirate Bay files charges against media companies
Post by: Link on September 23, 2007, 11:04:25 AM
Ah ok, so it's both are saying the other are in the wrong, sounds like a high school fight =/
Title: Re: The Pirate Bay files charges against media companies
Post by: modern algebra on September 23, 2007, 04:14:47 PM
or... you know... any fight :P
Title: Re: The Pirate Bay files charges against media companies
Post by: Link on September 23, 2007, 04:15:41 PM
 ;9..........maybe
Title: Re: The Pirate Bay files charges against media companies
Post by: Sophist on September 23, 2007, 06:08:43 PM
If we lived in

SOVIET RUSSIA

we wouldn't have this problem, would we?
Title: Re: The Pirate Bay files charges against media companies
Post by: haloOfTheSun on September 24, 2007, 03:47:42 AM
Yes.
Title: Re: The Pirate Bay files charges against media companies
Post by: chuckman22 on September 24, 2007, 09:03:55 AM
Quote from: Kashii on September 23, 2007, 08:05:24 AM
Amerika is dumb. Should just make it legal~


Americas not dumb just our government lol, I hate how America is becoming such a bully just to gain the moneys. It makes real Americans who work hard and have good spirits look bad.....*sigh*....................wow off topic...um yeah I have heard of people getting sued in America, Obviously the corporations gotta pay off that national debt somehow lol.
Title: Re: The Pirate Bay files charges against media companies
Post by: ahref on September 25, 2007, 02:50:45 PM
great ive been waiting for TBP to have a chance to get back at the idiots
Title: Re: The Pirate Bay files charges against media companies
Post by: modern algebra on September 25, 2007, 03:19:36 PM
The Birate's Pay?

I don't think they will win regardless.