Bolt_Gundam510 Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 by ErnestoThe Swedish prosecutor Håkan Roswall has announced the charges against four individuals involved with The Pirate Bay. The four, aged 23 to 37, are being charged with “assisting copyright infringement” of 4 software applications, 9 films and 22 music tracks.“The operation of The Pirate Bay is financed through advertising revenues. In that way it commercially exploits copyright-protected work and performances,” said prosecutor Hakan Roswall in a statement. The prosecution claims the site generates annual ad revenue of more than $4 million.Roswall consequently asks the court for a $188,000 fine for each of the four individuals - Fredrik Neij (”TiAMO”), Gottfrid Svartholm (”Anakata”), Peter Sunde (”Brokep”) and businessman Carl Lundström - and the confiscation of their computers. Among the works that were mentioned in the charges are “Let It Be” from the Beatles and Harry Potter’s “The Goblet of Fire”.The plaintiffs, including Warner Bros., Colombia Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Sony BMG, Universal and EMI have until the end of February to file claims for damages.In a response to the charges, Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde (”Brokep”) told TorrentFreak: “We’re of course interested in seeing the outcome of the case, and we welcome that they want to try to criminalize something we already know is legal.”The legal investigation started almost two years ago, after the controversial raid on the Pirate Bay in May 2006. At the time the Swedish police confiscated 180 servers, most of which had nothing to do with TPB. Last December the investigation finally came to an end, resulting in 4,000 pages of legal paperwork.The users of the site don’t have to worry that the site will be taken offline though, no matter what the court decides. “In case we lose the pending trial (yeah right) there will still not be any changes to the site. The Pirate Bay will keep operating just as always. We’ve been here for years and we will be here many more,” Sunde said.As we wrote earlier today, The Pirate Bay is not hosted in Sweden anymore. In fact, the Pirate Bay crew claims that they themselves have no idea where the servers are located. After the raid on their servers in 2006, they decided that it was better not to know where they are. One thing is sure though, they are not hosted in just a single country.ResponsesSpokesman for pro-file sharing group Piratbyrån, Magnus Eriksson, said: “The Pirate Bay is not going to be down for a single minute. The Pirate Bay is now established in a number of countries, so there’s no one place in which to push the off button”Ludvig Werner, chairman of the Swedish arm of the IFPI said: “The Pirate Bay operation has caused massive financial damage to rights holders. The profiteers behind The Pirate Bay have no interest in free speech, and they are not running The Pirate Bay because they love music and films. They are totally mercenary and are driven by the desire for personal wealth.”According to Heise, Magnus Eriksson is not so sure any of the Pirate Bay crew will be convicted: “It’s not very likely” he said. “In the course of the investigation there have been attempts to bring up various things that The Pirate Bay has supposedly been guilty of. Before it was financial crime, and now this accessory thing seems to be the last straw for the prosecutor”John Kennedy, chairman and chief executive of the IFPI said: “The operators of The Pirate Bay have always been interested in making money, not music.The Pirate Bay has managed to make Sweden, normally the most law abiding of EU countries, look like a piracy haven with intellectual property laws on a par with Russia.” developing story…This article has been updatedSource: Torrent Freak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoKz Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 thats not good.. ;) ohh no... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 thats not good.. :) ohh no...yeap they are slowly begin screwed. they are going to get sued to death. its going to be like the democrats and their illegal 527's. all that money they can sue you to death easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dock98 Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 the TPB will live on because it is in more than one country.they have to search the world to find them.i dunno if anyone has the bread for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoKz Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 the TPB will live on because it is in more than one country.they have to search the world to find them.i dunno if anyone has the bread for that.They can if they want... :) :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 the TPB will live on because it is in more than one country.they have to search the world to find them.i dunno if anyone has the bread for that.They can if they want... :) :rofl:plus they have to pay bills. i have a feeling they are making a lot of money form hosting other's peoples servers. kind of what they did with this site about 2 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 John Kennedy, chairman and chief executive of global music body, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industries, said: "The operators of The Pirate Bay have always been interested in making money, not music."The Pirate Bay has managed to make Sweden, normally the most law abiding of EU countries, look like a piracy haven with intellectual property laws on a par with Russia."He's plentifull of compliment that Russians should sue his ar*e for... or if not succesfull they can always get "misterious radiactive poisoning" to happen... :rofl: plus they have to pay bills. i have a feeling they are making a lot of money form hosting other's peoples servers. kind of what they did with this site about 2 years ago.I'd love to all of us to remember that TPB is the only one that managed to have firm stand for themselfs so far- If they'll break- most trackers will be rounded sooner rather than later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voodoohippie Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Must we forget what happened to ES5. ES5 was never found. File hoover and Sharepro managed to evade the media (which is practically owned by the RIAA/MPAA) and lead them on a super wild goose chase. They may have found a few operators of TPB, but if TPB was smart they would have used some of the technology as did ES5 to evade the cartel. Indeed I believe TPB has used that technology. Who knows I bet some of the investors of TPB may be the same as ES5. ES5 had a lot of fun pocked at it, but in reality it did do what it was set out to do and that was to wage a super war against the RIAA and MPAA without prosecution. If ES5 can do that then so can the Pirate Bay. The cartels want you to think that you are always within their gun site, but in reality they couldn't be more wrong. I think IMHO people are just starting to wake up and realize that they can indeed go against the cartel. The fact that Qtrax was not allowed to gain its Ad Supported music service to pay the artists only shows more mafia like tactics. In fact the MPAA/RIAA itself don't care about Movies and Music they care about money (which is funny they would say that about The Pirate Bay). The more they act like selfish dictators the more the world's governments will wake up and they'll just laugh the whole thing out of court. They keep singing the old worn out song "your stealing from the artists" but how could ad supported legal p2p be stealing? Oh I know it will indeed allow the artists to get paid directly without price gouging and of course no need for any promoters. This is something that the cartel won't allow without a fight. Well they've had their chance for 5 years now and still they've shown no success. Yet services such as TPB have even tried to make an ad supportive agreement and yet the cartels say no. Why do you suppose this is? Well soon they'll have no choice and when that day comes I'll certainly rejoice in the wave of pure victory and I'll be preatching about this for years to come to any new businessman out there trying to form a company or alliance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Must we forget what happened to ES5. ES5 was never found. File hoover and Sharepro managed to evade the media (which is practically owned by the RIAA/MPAA) and lead them on a super wild goose chase. They may have found a few operators of TPB, but if TPB was smart they would have used some of the technology as did ES5 to evade the cartel. Indeed I believe TPB has used that technology. Who knows I bet some of the investors of TPB may be the same as ES5. ES5 had a lot of fun pocked at it, but in reality it did do what it was set out to do and that was to wage a super war against the RIAA and MPAA without prosecution. If ES5 can do that then so can the Pirate Bay. The cartels want you to think that you are always within their gun site, but in reality they couldn't be more wrong. I think IMHO people are just starting to wake up and realize that they can indeed go against the cartel. The fact that Qtrax was not allowed to gain its Ad Supported music service to pay the artists only shows more mafia like tactics. In fact the MPAA/RIAA itself don't care about Movies and Music they care about money (which is funny they would say that about The Pirate Bay). The more they act like selfish dictators the more the world's governments will wake up and they'll just laugh the whole thing out of court. They keep singing the old worn out song "your stealing from the artists" but how could ad supported legal p2p be stealing? Oh I know it will indeed allow the artists to get paid directly without price gouging and of course no need for any promoters. This is something that the cartel won't allow without a fight. Well they've had their chance for 5 years now and still they've shown no success. Yet services such as TPB have even tried to make an ad supportive agreement and yet the cartels say no. Why do you suppose this is? Well soon they'll have no choice and when that day comes I'll certainly rejoice in the wave of pure victory and I'll be preatching about this for years to come to any new businessman out there trying to form a company or alliance.Way to go!Not to ridicule you(seriously, it's not) but i've got a smart conspiracy: Let's all turn over to the islam and don't tell the guys at the RIAA and the MPAA. HAH we'd have them then! The we could start a holy pro-piracy war against them. Smart, don't you think? :)This joke is copyrighted by 'Theo Maassen'. (The dutch people that know him will know what i mean, hehe) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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