http://www.t3.co.uk/news/247/general/pirate-bay-takes-film-companies-to-court?cid=OTC-RSS&attr=T3-Standard-RSS
It'd be amazing if they won. See, I don't think it should be legal for those sites to be shut down. They're not PROVIDING the illegal material, they're just providing the means to get it. It's up to the users how they want to utilize the sites, really. It's like arguing that the gun shop should be shut down because some kid shot up a movie theater with a gun he bought there. There's no basis.
QFT. Wasn't this whole thing spearheaded by the porn industry? Anyway, as much as they try to fight, The Pirate Bay has them by the balls. Oh yeah, fuck the RIAA and MPAA!
The best part is if they win The Pirate Bay will have successfully shoved yet another giant sexual device into the anal canal of the movie and music industry.
Swedish law does not regard sites which host BitTorrent links as hosting pirated material, since those sites are only providing the means to download the illegal material, and they're not actually providing the illegal material.
I am actually afraid that this might be a big mistake. The Pirate Bay could lose this, and that could set some kind of a precedent in the Swedish law claiming bitorrent to no longer be legal...
Does this mean they can only sue the sections of the companies based in Sweden or are they saying that they're legally allowed to have the site online 'cause it's not illegal in Sweden?
@ esaul17 As far as I know, BitTorrent is legal in all but a few countries, because it's simply the protocol by which people are downloading the illegal and pirated material. @ Dedicated They're suing the companies for illegally attempting to bring their website down using professional hackers, saboteurs and DDoSers. I'm not sure it has anything to do with the legality of BitTorrent at this point.
Yeah, but one of those countries is the United States whose companies and government seems to love telling the rest of the world what to do
I think it has more to do with the arrogance of Hollywood than the U.S. government (though you're not wrong). Corporate America does have a tendency to bend the rules as they see fit. This time, though, I don't think they're going to succeed. Pirate Bay FTW!
For those of you don't know why the 'Bay is suing the companies, I suggest you read their usage policy which they cleverly added a little while ago. This means companies like MediaDefender can't spread fakes or log IP addresses, and if they do so, they'll be getting a nice invoice at the end of the day, or lawsuit, such as in this news.
I just hope the pirates are as friendly as this one Because they need to win the case to prove a point that just having links to places isn't illegal and that really they should be suing the companies that are actually hosting illegal stuff.
The companies hosting the illegal stuff aren't companies at all, they are everyday people like you or me. If you have ever downloaded using Bittorrent, you are one of the "companies" hosting illegal stuff.