Pirate Bay guilty

[jeffrey collins]

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i guess the RIAA didn't take into account how smart some of these web people really are.

As long as the internet is around there will always be music, program, video pirates out there. Just face it record labels and devise a better way to make money. I guess they are just mad that the CEO's of the labels couldn't buy another 15mil boat this year....AAAAW.

[i!!ustrious]

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fuck yeah. read the blog the other day, the bay will win the day. arrrgghh!

some auspicious times on the net as of late tho, what with all these raids. i hear there's also quite a few ddos attacks being causes by trojans too. that is wack.

[Homskillet]

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^^ Love it!! Dude's got a head on his shoulders.

Don't really understand the whole equasion thingy, but the concept is pretty cool. They ought to throw a link on their homepage to make a $.13 payment to this lawfirm...

They'll bombard the law firm in no time!

[feather]

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Pirate Bay Founder Devises DDo$ Attack


Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm (aka anakata) recieved a bill for the 30 million SEK that he, along with Peter Sunde (aka brokep), Fredrik Neij (aka TiAMO), and Carl Lundstrom, was fined in the verdict of the Pirate Bay trial just over three weeks ago. The bill inspired anakata to devise a plan involving sending money to Danowsky’s law firm, but not to pay the fine of course which they say will never be payed. Anakata’s clever plan is called internet-avgift, internet-fee in English. Anakata encourages all Internet users to pay extremely small sums around 1 SEK (0.13 USD) to Danowsky’s law firm, which represented the music companies at the Pirate Bay trial. The music companies will not benefit from this, instead it will cost them money to handle and process all the money.
The plan can be called a Distributed Denial of Dollars attack (DDo$). The plan is an away-from-keyboard DDoS attack. DDoS attacks involve lots of users overloading the victim with internet traffic damaging their ability to provide services. Money, instead of Internet traffic is used in this case. The victim is Danowsky’s law firm which represented the IFPI at the Pirate Bay trial.
A friend of anakata told Blog Pirate that the bank account to which the payments are directed has only 1000 free transfers, after which any transfers have a surcharge of 2 SEK for the account holder. Any internet-fee payments made after the first 1000, which includes the law firm’s ordinary transfers, will instead of giving 1 SEK, cost 1 SEK to the law firm. Since Danowsky & Partners Advokatbyrå is a small firm, all the transactions are handled by hand. Handling all payments will be time consuming, costing the law firm in productivity. Maybe it will even affect their success in other cases.

Make direct payments to
Danowsky & Partners Advokatbyrå KB. Plusgiro 79 31 21-5.

Additionally if after paying the internet-fee you determine that your payment was erroneous, Swedish law states that you can request the money back, putting an additional load on Danowsky’s law firm.
Since the Pirate Bay crew was provided with such clear, logical, and well explained methods for calculating the damages in the trial, an explanation on how the internet-fee was calculated is provided. Use the formula below, substituting anything anywhere, to check that the internet-fee really is 1 SEK.
The name internet-avgift, as well as the layout of the site is based on tv-avgift and they layout of its site. Radiojanst, a state owned company, is responsible for collecting TV license fees in Sweden.

[dusk]

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^^^ Now that's what you call standing up against THE MAN!

[Kamal]

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http://i.gizmodo.com/5223533/the-pirate-google-bay-gives-the-finger-to-record-companies-studios

[feather]

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Oh they've been doing that for a while ever since the Google account was created. So much that they claim because your search history is now tracked, they can return you better hits.

[Kamal]

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Fucking hell ... how the fuck does this work, I don't understand why they're guilty. Why not sue Google? I use it all the time to look for shit on filesharers.

The one thing that worries me the most about google is at times, I'll stay logged into my gmail account in 1 browser and for work or personal use, I'll run a google search in another browser. When the google search window is open, I'll see my email username in the top of the search page, showing me that I've logged in. The first time I saw that, it struck me that they are now saving personal information about each user's searches and once they have done that for a few years, they could potentially have sufficient data mined about an individual to build an accurate profile about him/her, their tastes, who he/she works for, their lighter / darker side etc. etc.

This is one thing about google that has really started to worry me.

[feather]

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How the FUCK does that happen?!

[Corven]

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Just a couple of hour ago, this breaking news article was published on the webpage of SR (Swedish National Radio). It unveils how the judge of the The Pirate Bay spectrial is actually an active member of the Swedish copyright lobby.

http://freeform101.org/?p=195

that kind of explains a lot

[rainman]

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had been following this for a while and noticed the verdict the other day. i'm astonished. i read where a year or so ago one of the guys from tpb was quoted saying, "i believe we have a greater chance of being struck by lightning than being found guilty." Suppose this opinion was based off of law alone and did not take into account the power of the almighty dollar.

[dusk]

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IF they are guilty for those 17 why not the rest?

was just wondering

Didn't know the details ... but yea its too absurd that its only the 17 files... That makes no sense whatsoever.

[Shpira]

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Why Google is the new Pirate Bay

Google is the shit you can find whatever you want through it...music, films, tv shows. I never really used torrent search engines anyway. Especially since rapidshare, megaupload etc appeared + there are loads of sites which host streaming movies. MegaVideo doesn't even bother removing illegal content. Its crazy for anyone to think that policing the internet in any way (short of Governments involvement on a national level) is possible.

[Huggie Smiles]

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i also dont understnad why they were done for just 17 files.
were those 17 different in someway to the other 100,000?

IF they are guilty for those 17 why not the rest?

was just wondering

[feather]

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Why Google is the new Pirate Bay