The MPAA Won’t Stop with the Lawsuits. Next Up: Pirate Bay

[admin]

Even though The Pirate Bay has moved to the Sinai Desert, the MPAA is following TPB wherever it goes, lawsuit papers in hand. TPB hasn’t been immune to th legal woes of running a torrent site, but it has had enough protection from Swedish copyright laws (until recently) to help ward off some of the copyright issues that so many torrent sites have been plagued with.

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According to TorrentFreak, the MPAA is demanding a mere $15.4 million from TPB, to cover claimed losses from torrents of “Harry Potter,” “Syriana,” “The Pink Panther,” “Walk the Line” and 13 episodes of the television show “Prison Break.”

http://mashable.com/2008/05/08/the-m...up-pirate-bay/

A follow up to this story. More of an empty threat at the moment, but the MPAA is feeling extremely confident right now.

[drfsupercenter]

I thought them moving to the Sinai Desert was an April Fool's Joke...

[locoeng]

We should all pack up and move to Antigua....

[drfsupercenter]

A whois on The Pirate Bay says it's still in Sweden, and there's no indication on their site whatsoever that they moved to Sinai. Where is this coming from?

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Yeah, that site's stupid... all the comments say that it was just a joke.
It reminds me of one site I found claiming to have 30 reasons why Eminem is bad (and I'm a fan of his music), and they got their facts all screwed up saying that he wrote certain songs that were actually by people like Nelly, Dr. Dre, etc., and what makes it worse is that it's by a "doctor"... he should know what he's doing then!

[Chewy]

Maybe if we bought more volvos Sweden would consent to letting a private USA company dicate their laws to them, but all the MPAA is interested in is getting more Kronas

[drfsupercenter]

Well ultimately the MPAA is stupid if they think they can really stop piracy... I think the people who cracked ARccOS, HD-DVD, and Blu-Ray proved that nothing really works.

Why don't they just go cry about it and leave it at that? If they do manage to shut The Pirate Bay down, some other site will spring up in its place and it will probably be worse...

[admin]

Even with TorrentSpy down and even if they somehow manages to shut down TPB (which they can't ... it's just a server move to Antigua away from being absolutely safe, although they are pretty safe in Sweden right now too), there's still Mininova, Demonoid (which seems to be back) and no doubt many other new torrent sites.

I don't think piracy is hurting the movie industry, not when profits are at a record high even though a recession is on the cards and people are spending more on things like video games. The movie industry needs to get in line with the 21st century and start making movies available to download cheaply, quickly and without DRM ... once they do that, piracy will put an end to itself.

[drfsupercenter]

That's what I've been saying... They just claim it hurts them, but it really doesn't. I mean, someone has to buy a movie to rip it, right?

Plus, free movies is good advertising for the studios... Otherwise previews and TV spots would be illegal. You can see movies for free on most cable channels, and it's legal to tape them, so why not just get a different source?

Ultimately the MPAA and the RIAA will just die off IMO, they'll keep getting pushed back and back until there's nothing left and they're forced to quit.