Didn't The Pirate Bay get bitch slapped by the MPAA?
 

So I am looking for an obscure album recorded by a garage band in my home town and find a listing for it on The Pirate Bay. This tripped me out because I thought they got bitch slapped by the Swedish court in a lawsuit filed by the MPAA...?

Next thing I know I am searching for all kinds of shit and finding it on there. So what gives? I thought the owners had to do jail time and shit? How is the site still up?

Any who... This makes me sad because it probably means nothing will ever happen to tubes.

First you said that you didn't like piracy and now you say that MPAA slapped TPB?

This is a flipflop, it's a flipflop to me.... Why do you flipflop?

i use the The Pirate Bay

They're the Walmart of the interwebs.

They got sentenced to jail, and millions in damages, but fled the country. Even though they lost the case, the site continues to operate. I think it got sold and is no longer hosted in Sweden I believe.

From what I understand they are appealing things and fighting every thing and like nextri said they fled the country and are on the run. It is likely only a matter of time until they are caught and have to face the music.

Honestly, what a stupid thing to go to jail over. They deserve it, but when they are finally caught and are sitting in jail, they will be rethinking their retarded site and if it was all worth it, which of course at that time the answer will be, no.

british telecom are under a lot of pressure to put a block in place on pirate bay after forced to do the same on newzbin

way things seem to be going

natasha
x

whatever the news says is usually half horseshit

is the album good or it one of those albums we just like because its from our youth? lol

I was actually shocked to hear that they got jail time at all, but I guess if it is a criminal act you can go to jail for just about anything. I was just reading that one of the guys was able to appeal and got his jail sentence reduced from 1 year down to 4 months, but he had to pay a slightly larger fine.

I wonder if he gets ass raped in prison if that is considered fair use of his ass? :1orglaugh

Swedish jail doesn't sound all too bad.

Outside of America people don't go around 'ass raping' other men in prison. It's gay.

I heard one of them got some medical condition or cancer or something, which will basically force him to go back to Sweden to receive medical treatment.

PB has servers in several countries, when they are found guilty (about 8 times now) they simply shut down the one server in that land where the lawsuit applies but the "network" as a whole stays up.

just be thankful they didnt goto a russian jail

Yeah one of these Swedish thief bastards is suffering from cancer, I saw pics of him on some news site last week, all bald from chemo and skinny. I hope the rest of his cancer process will be very slow and painful and once he's dead and burried I'll visit his grave to shit on it. Nothing personal, I just don't like it when people steal my property.

I used if I needed something very nice source!

Thought he died and that was the official reason for TPB being sold to someone... The founders didn't want to run it without him.

What's amazing ia a site that's clearly illegal is still online. The problem with existing laws and penalties is they do not go far enough. These guys and other pirates run business supplying other peoples goods they don't own or have the license for. For profit.

Remove the profit element and they come crashing down. Who will run a big expensive site if it costs them money? OK I know the answer to that, still you get the picture.

Remove Domain
DNS
Hit hosting, advertisers and processors.

Then watch the problem shrink over night.

they made a fortune. once they get out they are set for life.

unbelievable the amount of traffic they have...

me too :pimp

And there's the problem. Hit the money source.

If only the MPAA and RIAA and consulted with you during the last 20 years maybe the could have achieved their dream instead of just spunking millions and increasing piracy.

You've got it all sussed!

Email them. [email protected]

There's nothing strange about that... offer something for free and people will run to you like shit flies come to a pile of shit.

"fled the country" is common for folks dealing with that site.