said by koitsu :

Who said anything this is about Pirate Bay? The news title says Pirate Pay.

said by baineschile :

Maybe GLAD should be implicated in America's war on drugs too, since so much weed is stored, transported, and sold in their plastic bags.

said by baineschile :

The primary idea of TPB is to promote file sharing; which is what they do. They do not exercise control over content, just as glad doesnt tell me what I can and cant put in my baggie

said by manfmmd :

They can easily control content, but CHOOSE not to.

said by KrK :

Nonsense. They cannot control the content of the torrents without downloading and verifying them all personally first---- not only impossible, but illegal as well.

This is like saying "Google can control all the content their search engine provides." Sure, they can attempt to block content via certain filters, but it no way could they ever block all of it.

said by manfmmd :

They can ABSOLUTELY attempt to control the content that is uploaded to their site.

said by KrK :

Sigh. Here we go again. Nothing is uploaded to their site. The torrent tracker software is automatic search engine and data miner. No way they could successfully judge what's legal and what's not. Even with filters, they'd only catch part of it and screw up their functionality.

said by manfmmd :

Are you saying that TBP does not host trackers that point to copyrighted material?

said by KrK :

They host trackers that point to torrents. Nobody uploads them, they are gathered automatically. It has not been required under any law yet to verify that any search or tracker you point to is not copyrighted, although that may soon change.... and would be unworkable.

Their sole existence is to allow bit torrent users to find files and data they are looking for. The USER determines what they provide or download from the torrent network, not TPB.

said by KrK :

You're deliberately being obtuse. Sure, could they manually de-list a tracker. Yes. They could even apply filters to do so, which would also be inaccurate, and filter unintended trackers, but so what.

The point being is why should they bother, they aren't required to do so (well under previous law, anyway) nor do they care to spend the manpower and money to do so. (Unworkable.)

said by manfmmd :

But they care enough to move their servers into strategic datacenters that are, so far, untouchable. They care enough to willingly accept 'donations'...hmmmm.

said by torrentfreak :

Swedish Association of Copyright (SFU) - The judge Tomas Norström is a member of this discussion forum that holds seminars, debates and releases the Nordic Intellectual Property Law Review. Other members of this outfit? Henrik Pontén (Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau), Monique Wadsted (movie industry lawyer) and Peter Danowsky (IFPI) - the latter is also a member of the board of the association.

Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (SFIR) - The judge Tomas Norström sits on the board of this association that works for stronger copyright laws. Last year they held the Nordic Championships in Intellectual Property Rights Process Strategies.

.SE (The Internet Infrastructure Foundation) - Tomas Norström works for the foundation that oversees the .se name domain and advises on domain name disputes. His colleague at the foundation? Monique Wadsted. Wadsted says she's never met Norström although they have worked together.

said by TKJunkMail :

Just more proof that the Pirate Bay Four are nothing but brazen criminals that deserve any justice meted out to them. If they ever end up in prison as they deserve, that is the day I will raise a beer celebrating their downfall.

said by Stumbles :

Aye, tis be a crime to point someone to a book and say, she be thar... go get matey.

That is all TPB was doing, showing someone WHERE the book was BUT did not participate in its downloading. Heavens to betsy, guess I'll go to jail for posting on a website the ISBN number of a book at your local library.

said by Stumbles :

Aye, tis be a crime to point someone to a book and say, she be thar... go get matey.

That is all TPB was doing, showing someone WHERE the book was BUT did not participate in its downloading. Heavens to betsy, guess I'll go to jail for posting on a website the ISBN number of a book at your local library.

said by Nightfall :

Its still an offense. Its called being an accessory. I admit its a grey area offense, but its one the courts ruled on and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out its not right.

said by FiL :

well then the industry should sue google also...

said by Nightfall :

Its still an offense. Its called being an accessory. I admit its a grey area offense, but its one the courts ruled on and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out its not right.

said by Stumbles :

Aye, tis be a crime to point someone to a book and say, she be thar...

said by odinb :

How Long Can You Go Without Infringing On Copyright?

»www.techdirt.com/articles/200905···39.shtml

said by TKJunkMail :

Just more proof that the Pirate Bay Four are nothing but brazen criminals that deserve any justice meted out to them. If they ever end up in prison as they deserve, that is the day I will raise a beer celebrating their downfall.

said by TKJunkMail :

Just more proof that the Pirate Bay Four are nothing but brazen criminals that deserve any justice meted out to them. If they ever end up in prison as they deserve, that is the day I will raise a beer celebrating their downfall.

said by TKJunkMail :

Just more proof that the Pirate Bay Four are nothing but brazen criminals that deserve any justice meted out to them. If they ever end up in prison as they deserve, that is the day I will raise a beer celebrating their downfall.

said by TKJunkMail :

Just more proof that the Pirate Bay Four are nothing but brazen criminals that deserve any justice meted out to them. If they ever end up in prison as they deserve, that is the day I will raise a beer celebrating their downfall.

said by P Ness :

same holds true for google and yahoo employees SEND THEM ALL TO JAIL....

umm you do know you can get direct links to torrents using google and yahoo too...

oh and the appeal will be easy mode since they judge basically screwed over the proceedings

said by TKJunkMail :

Just more proof that the Pirate Bay Four are nothing but brazen criminals that deserve any justice meted out to them. If they ever end up in prison as they deserve, that is the day I will raise a beer celebrating their downfall.

said by Ignite :

The 'Pirate Bay Four' how very dramatic.

I really fail to understand the hard-on you have for corporate interests being a private individual but I guess it's your prerogative.

Can I just take this opportunity to thank you for the endless entertainment you provide me on this site however. You remind me of how a few other countries including this one used to be and for all our faults I'm very grateful we alongside swathes of Europe left your rabid pro-corporate points of view behind many years ago

What do you care what happens to the 'Pirate Bay Four' and what on Earth are you talking about making it sound like they bombed something or killed children? Who really gives a crap what they've done to corporations, we've seen CD prices virtually half in the UK, in no small part thanks to the Internet, I would consider that a good thing though I imagine you spend your days obsessively watching your share values. How dare real human beings lower the value of your portfolio!

If you want to discuss numbers of people you might want to look into the history of the UK and the IRA attacks on the UK mainland. To imply some equality by referring to them as the 'Pirate Bay Four' is hilarious. Let's keep that kind of language for people the general public would actually find distasteful, rather than these guys who, apart from people like you, most find mildly amusing.

You really have no humanity and demonstrate with virtually every post on here you're like a walking PR machine

said by TKJunkMail :

Just more proof that the Pirate Bay Four are nothing but brazen criminals....

said by TamaraB :

EDIT: Are TV Stations criminal when they run ads for known scams like Video Professor and EXTENZE?

said by Anonymous :

They just need to move the site to a country that's outside the reach of US/EU laws

said by ja2007123 :

and put 'em on an American jail for one year.
I promise these guys will never ever infringe any law.

P2P-ers furious over the Pirate Bay case are being asked to get back at lawyers for the entertainment industry via the counter-intuitive route of ostensibly giving them money.

By sending very small amounts of money of 1SEK ($0.13) to Danowsky & Partners, who brought the prosecution, through the Swedish web-based payment service internet-avgift, the ruse could make lawyers lose out after fees for the transaction are taken into account. The cunning so-called Distributed Denial of Dollars attack (DDo$) is apparently the brainchild of Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm.