Technology news and Jobs 
Our Blogs Fuzzy Logic Swedish “Pirate Bay” under new legal attack
Our Blogs Fuzzy Logic Swedish “Pirate Bay” under new legal attack | Swedish “Pirate Bay” under new legal attack |
|
| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Monday, 18 February 2008 | |
|
Page 1 of 3   
Featured Whitepaper
5 Best Practices for Smartphone Support
The popular site’s ‘legal’ page has a list of all of the emails it has received from various companies around the world, along with its responses, which usually amount to little more than telling the companies concerned to go away and leave them alone. According to the International Herald Tribune and the Associated Press, past pop sensations Prince and the Village People have decided they’ve had enough of the Pirate Bay and their file sharing ways, and have decided to enrich US and Swedish lawyers by filing a lawsuit for millions of dollars in damages as a result of the Pirate Bay’s actions in helping people worldwide to infringe copyright. Lars Sandberg, a Swedish lawyer working on the Swedish aspect of the Lawsuit, told the Associated Press that: "Work has been initiated to claim damages from those who are behind The Pirate Bay”. The article states that Swedish authorities are once again trying to flex their legal muscle in helping to shut down the site, no doubt under international pressure to do something about the mass piracy being enabled by the Swedish “Long John Silvers”. Prince is peeved that 40 of his albums have been available for download, while the Village People are vociferously vocal about the violation of copyright over their hit “YMCA”. So, what’s an example of the type of typical response Lars Sandberg and his US legal colleagues can expect from the Pirate Bay? Please read onto page 2. |
| < Next story in category | Previous story in the category > |
|---|
