The Pirate Bay sues anti-piracy activists over copyright infringement
 

Oh The Irony

For their latest anti-piracy campaign a Finnish activist group has ripped off the design of the infamous The Pirate Bay website. The Pirate Bay has now threatened to sue the campaigners over copyright infringement.

haThe campaign, launched by the anti-piracy group CIAPC, copied TPB's website, including the CSS stylesheet, and replaced the logo with one of a sinking ship. The aim is to link the visitors with a message that informs them of legal alternatives to The Pirate Bay.

This Pirate Bay says the move violates the company?s policy which does not permit theft of the site's design and has threatened legal action.

?We are outraged by this behavior. People must understand what is right and wrong. Stealing material like this on the internet is a threat to economies worldwide,? a Pirate Bay spokesman told TorrentFreak.

?Our site (and all of its contents) is free of charge for anyone for personal usage. Organizations (for instance, but not limited to, non-profit or companies) may use the system if they clear this with the system operators first,? a Pirate Bay policy statement reads.

?We reserve the rights to charge for usage of the site in case this policy is violated. The charge will consist of a basic fee of EUR 5,000 plus bandwidth and other costs that may arise due to the violation,? it adds.

CIAPC is a campaigner that works against copyright infringement on the Internet by preventing the production, distribution of unauthorized copies on the web.


http://rt.com/news/piratebay-sues-co...ringement-356/

That's a good one :1orglaugh
Good to know they are so serious about IP rights :disgust

Finn's Revenge:thumbsup

I found that extremely funny when it was in the news.
Sad, but funny at the same time.

These guys seriously know how to troll.

Haha we need more of this news these days.

Definition of irony? hahahah

Some people are easily trolled.

lol irony :)

Is this from the onion?
Someone needs to step and drop a few pirates off a, plank from their helicopter about two hundred miles out to sea.

The first time I saw the story I had to double check that it wasn't from The Onion.

I still think it is just TPB being funny and they aren't actually going to go through with it.