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05-09-2008, 12:50 PM
| | |  MPAA demand $15 million damages for illegal downloads
The Motion Picture Association of America is demanding $15.4 million from the Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent tracker, for illegal downloads including that of Harry Potter movies. For each individual download of the films they want 261,50 kronor ($43). Quote:
Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde (Brokep) is not impressed by Hollywood’s claims, he told TorrentFreak in a response: “They know they are losing, and try to make us look like big criminals by adding some zeros to a claim for a made-up crime.”
“The worst thing is that I lost 100 kronor on a bet on the number they would come up with,” Sunde added. “And, it sucks that they didn’t claim more than for Napster and the other sites. It’s cooler to break the record.”
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When Monique Wadsted, MPAA’s lawyer and a talkshow host, was asked whether the MPAA really thinks every download is a lost sale, she said: “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.”
Wadsted expects the worst now she has announced the claims, even being hacked by Pirate Bay fanboys: “I know that they have an increased interest in my person and that they try to ridicule me. I also count on having my computer hacked. As a business lawyer, I’m not used to these kinds of reactions.”
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 yah!serve them right...alwiz buy originals since movie 1..so i never worry!am a madly loyal hp fan! 
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ouch - would have been cheaper to buy a legit copy!!!??!!
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This guy sounds childish and immature.
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poor bloke this serves as a lesson to not do anything when it is illegal
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the guy loves to thumb his nose at the law, doesnt he? Nothing a big fat lawsuit won't cure...
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Just proves that you should never do anything illegal where Harry Potter is concerned. | |
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05-09-2008, 06:08 PM
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It's weird that this website got picked out, when there are so many others as well.
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Thank goodness I'm too scared to do anything illegal. I mean I need my HP like the rest of us, but I know it worth the $$$ to buy a legit copy.
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This is why at the start of a video/dvd that there is a warning , and this is what happens, hate to say this, but do anything bad and it will come back to you in the end..
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the thing is he did not put these downloads on it is members of pirate bay that add the films
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Umm... Why Pirate Boy when there are so many other such websites out there, too? I see them pop up all over the world wide web, all the time.
And I sort of like how Peter Sunde talks.
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That is not to say I'm not with the MPAA on this. Those downloads were illegal, and any action against them is entirely just and fair. =]
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Why just The Pirate Bay though? I mean I could think of MANY other sites where you can download that kind of stuff. Maybe TPB is more well known by people on the internet. That's what I'm going with but yeah I don't think the owner of TPB should be charged with a crime since it's the users of the site that upload the content. | |
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that is bad, but it is not his falut people download it
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Originally Posted by dracocutie89  Why just The Pirate Bay though? I mean I could think of MANY other sites where you can download that kind of stuff. Maybe TPB is more well known by people on the internet. That's what I'm going with but yeah I don't think the owner of TPB should be charged with a crime since it's the users of the site that upload the content. They've also gone after another - but that didn't involve Harry Potter, hence we haven't reported it.
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Originally Posted by Japanese Wizard This guy sounds childish and immature. ^ I totally agree with you Jack.
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What a stupid thing of them to do. They should know better than to illegally download stuff that isn't theirs.
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Don't they know they'll get caught. stupid thing to do!
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That's just insane!!!!!
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05-11-2008, 04:41 PM
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They consistently target Pirate Bay because of its popularity as a torrent tracker site. The problem is that since they are located in Sweden, the copyright laws are totally different. The MPAA doesn't stand a chance in getting a single cent out of them.
Every time some large company has tried to sue them for money, Pirate Bay has won and walked away without owing a cent.
And yeah, Peter's cocky because they get things like this all the time: The Pirate Bay - The world's largest BitTorrent tracker
It's not the first time the MPAA has targetted them (unsuccessfully), and certainly won't be the last.
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05-11-2008, 06:36 PM
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Hahaha I remember that The Pirate Bay wanted to buy their own island in 2007 to evade copyright claims. 
But yes, as long as TPB is under Swedish jurisdiction, there's not much companies from other countries can do.
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Woah, you'd think they'd learn though after a while.
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