Pirate Bay: big revenue claims fabricated by prosecutors

Pirate Bay: big revenue claims fabricated by prosecutors

arstechnica.com

The Swedish government is aiming its cannons at The Pirate Bay, but the torrent site's administrators say that they don't plan to abandon ship. The charges filed yesterday against The Pirate Bay by Swedish prosecutor Hakan Roswall (coverage at BBC, TorrentFreak) allege that four of the torrent site's administrators are guilty of participating in copyright infringement, and for profit. This filing comes over a year after fifty Swedish law enforcement agents seized The Pirate Bay's servers during

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I cant wait for the new win . Pushing these goons into forfeit . The law is on there side .
Sites still going strong by the way. Gotta love free press lol . I wish one of my sites would get this much free advertising.
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[edit on 1-2-2008 by oLDWoRLDDiSoRDeR]

Well, whatever the results of the trial may be, The Pirate Bay seems pretty sure it won't be going anywhere.

Pirate Bay Says It Can't Be Sunk, Servers Scattered Worldwide

"The Pirate Bay is not in Sweden," the 29-year-old Kolmisoppi said.

Where are the servers?

"It's a distributed system. We don't know where the servers are. We gave them to people we trust and they don't know it's The Pirate Bay," Kolmisoppi said. "They then rent locations and space for them somewhere else. It could be three countries. It could be six countries. We don't want to know because then you'll have a problem shutting them down."

Have you read their blog entry about this charge? Apparently it consists of a 4000 page document (which they've asked people to seed on the torrents, hah)

PS -- who is that in your avatar? Such a lovely smile...

going after places like the pirate bay is like going after blockbuster video because people can copy their vids/dvds.

it also ignores the fact that there are plenty of bands or software developers or aspiring film makers etc out there that actually don't mind their products being distributed via torrent. what are those people supposed to do to get themselves known otherwise?