Swedish “Pirate Bay” under new legal attack

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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Monday, 18 February 2008

Page 1 of 3 ! Torrent download site, the Pirate Bay is in the legal firing line once again, this time from lawyers representing Prince and the Village People. However, if the Pirate Bay’s other responses to letters they have received from companies around the world are any indication, their response will likely be little more than a line from the Village People’s hit: you can’t stop the music, nobody can stop the music (or the Pirate Bay!). Related stories Ubidays 08 blows smoke up our DS The Prince makes the leap to next gen Pirate Bay de-scuppered and back on Yahoo Pirate Bay gets scuppered by Yahoo Pirate Bay operators charged The Pirate Bay claims to be the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker, and due to the nature of Swedish laws, has been able to ‘legally’ operate in Sweden, despite having even been raided in 2006. 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. << First page <   1 2 3 Next page > Last page - Post your comment >>

 

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