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The MPAA wants $15 Million from The Pirate Bay
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article published on 8 May, 2008
The MPAA has announced that is suing the infamous torrent tracker The Pirate Bay for $15.4 million USD citing "damages suffered" from 4 movies and 13 TV episodes uploaded to the tracker.
The movies in question are "Harry Potter 5", "Syriana", "The Pink Panther" and "Walk the Line" and all 13 episodes are from the hit show "Prison Break". The MPAA is demanding $37 USD for each download ... [ read the full article ]
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8. May 2008 @ 18:24 |
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?We don?t know that, but the copyright law doesn?t care about that. It says that if you have downloaded something illegally, you must pay regardless, if you would?ve bought it or not.?
TPB never downloaded anything so I guess this doesn't apply. They've already lost this case.
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corn
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8. May 2008 @ 18:26 |
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The files arn't hosted on the server, only the .torrnet files are. So, really what is TPB doing wrong? Why don't they go after the uploaders?
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varnull
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8. May 2008 @ 18:58 |
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Yeah.. habeus corpus applies.. the mpaa have already lost this one.
TPB should counter sue for harassment and illegal bullying and punitive malicious litigation. It's BS and we all know it..
http://designetc.net/mpaa.jpg
No link as required under the GPL...... makes the mpaa software thieves.
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8. May 2008 @ 19:01 |
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And what if half the people downloading them actually bought them? Didn't the movie industry see a really good year in 2007 in terms of profits??
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8. May 2008 @ 19:05 |
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What happened to duking it out in court ? For the MPAA to do this in the court of public media, they may very well be losing in the legal system.
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varnull
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8. May 2008 @ 19:16 |
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F--- the lot of em... all the profiteering scumbags.
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8. May 2008 @ 20:36 |
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i love how they double the price of the movie/ tv show... harry potter can be bought for $20, yet they're looking for $47? who's the pirates here? who's stealing from who?
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8. May 2008 @ 20:48 |
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I think they should go after all of the "criminals" that downloaded the pink panther! I hope it was at least the Peter Sellars version. And where the hell do they come up with these numbers, F--- all if they think I would pay $5 from the bargain bin for any of those movies.
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8. May 2008 @ 23:01 |
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More free publicity for the Pirate Bay which in turn creates new p2p users.
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9. May 2008 @ 01:50 |
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KILL ALL THE LAWYERS.
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9. May 2008 @ 02:49 |
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name, shame and boycott all mpaa/riaa anti-consumer c**k suckers.
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OMG America it looks like the MPAA/RIAA lobby won, the pro IP Act sails through, Now Sony and co want your home and possessions for copywrite infringement. does the punishment fit the crime i wonder?
House overwhelmingly passes controversial PRO-IP Act
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The bill would also enable law enforcement agents to seize property from copyright infringers.
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9. May 2008 @ 03:17 |
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i dont get why they want so much per movie? How does that even work?
Shouldnt they be asking for like the price of a movie ticker per download?
And you would hope it would only include American downloads.
Oh well, they hopefully wont get a cent.
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9. May 2008 @ 03:18 |
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The bill would also enable law enforcement agents to seize property from copyright infringers.
The same doesn't go for crooked employers who hire illegal aliens, under pay those slave laborers off the books and cheat on paying Social Security taxes. You are a frigging racist if you believe that these asset forfeiture laws should also apply to their favored kinds of criminals.
Its just fine if some body grows marijuana or downloads a stinkinng MP-3 file; but not greedy corporate thieves who are ruining the US economy. Bill Gates prefers to import more cheap foreign laborers and pay them half of what Americans made as Microsoft employees. BOYCOTT VISTA.
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OMG America it looks like the MPAA/RIAA lobby won, the pro IP Act sails through, Now Sony and co want your home and possessions for copywrite infringement. does the punishment fit the crime i wonder?
That corrupt US Congress just sits back, while lobbyist groups
who finance their political campaigns, draft a deluge of laws to suit themselves. Comedians call them the Parliament of Whores for a good reason. Money influences just what kind of laws come out of that District of Criminals. Three of them want to be the next president. It makes me wanna throw up...
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9. May 2008 @ 06:40 |
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Somebody bought it either way, heh. But, notice how they are making the MOST downloaded movie come with the largest fee? Bunch of bull shit. Nothing we can do, besides use PG2.
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9. May 2008 @ 07:59 |
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Originally posted by corn:
Somebody bought it either way, heh. But, notice how they are making the MOST downloaded movie come with the largest fee? Bunch of bull shit. Nothing we can do, besides use PG2.
LMAO nice pic ;)
But really, not even PG2 can save you from the rath of a retarded govornment :P
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9. May 2008 @ 14:04 |
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Originally posted by corn:
Somebody bought it either way, heh. But, notice how they are making the MOST downloaded movie come with the largest fee? Bunch of bull shit. Nothing we can do, besides use PG2.
LMAO nice pic ;)
But really, not even PG2 can save you from the rath of a retarded govornment :P
True but it does help a little :)
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9. May 2008 @ 14:41 |
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Too bad they don't see that they are suing a a group of people who hold a library Rolodex of stuff, nothing more, nothing less.
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9. May 2008 @ 14:46 |
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Nah, they see money. They don't see us as people who don't wanna pay $15+ for a new movie, or pay $10.00 for a movie ticket. They see a lawsuit, and a family forced into bankruptcy. Another life ruined thanks to the MPAA.
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9. May 2008 @ 15:19 |
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Sorry big wigs but TV shows are fair game to EVERYONE in the world. There isn't a soul that would agree with the MPAA regarding FREE tv shows on P2P. They get broadcast for free and according to the FCC rules and regulation..............."For every signal sent, anyone and everyone has the right to intercept that signal".
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9. May 2008 @ 15:40 |
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Isn't the Pirate Bay in another country?
How can they be sued in the USA
this is ridiculous
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corn
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9. May 2008 @ 16:17 |
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Originally posted by rob0t3ch:
Sorry big wigs but TV shows are fair game to EVERYONE in the world. There isn't a soul that would agree with the MPAA regarding FREE tv shows on P2P. They get broadcast for free and according to the FCC rules and regulation..............."For every signal sent, anyone and everyone has the right to intercept that signal".
I've always thought about that, but thought I was wrong. Guess I was right, hehe.
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9. May 2008 @ 19:00 |
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So let me see if I got this right.
If a link was put on the MPAA site and if you clicked on it,
and you were sent to another site which downloaded "something
illegally" - would that require the MPAA have to pay - due to the
breaking of the copyright law??
And, when does American laws apply to The Pirate Bay... they are not located in America.
...and the price for Harry Potter 5... $43USD??!!! MPAA your math is
wrong...check out Amazon.com BEFORE it was discounted $34.99 list!!
http://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Phoen...l/dp/B00005JPI2
Cheers!
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9. May 2008 @ 19:12 |
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Mpaa lost when TPB said, "it does not host the actual files on their servers". They act like a search engine thats all. Fricken MPAA, they want respect and lots of MONEY..................MONEY...... those days are over. Ask the artist of the 70', 80's and 90's how much money they lost to them. NOw with the internet age everything has changed and now the ball is in our court.
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9. May 2008 @ 19:20 |
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The MPAA really makes themselfs look like a joke when they file retarded lawsuits that don't really help their cause, but instead only brings more attention to piracy..which then more people realize that they dont have to pay a dime and can just download it. So thank you MPAA for bringing more attention to something that will never die AND that's piracy!
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13. May 2008 @ 14:13 |
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... and another round of Peer-to-peer whack-a-mole!
This is like suing the car companies for providing the radio that someone used to record a copyrighted song off of.
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