February 10, 2010
Published: 19 May 09 15:29 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/19544/20090519/
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Four American record companies want a Swedish court to bar three of the men convicted in the Pirate Bay trial from speaking out about the case and have requested the men be fined as long as the file sharing site keeps operating.
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PiratParty 2009! Vote early from 20th May!
Inletwatcher
If this is allowed to happen what follows? I'll be gagged from saying "Brittany Spears is crap" because by doing so I may turn someone off buying her CDs and thus dent their profits.
I hope that for once the swedish legal system grows a pair and tells the yanks where to stick their petition. Sadly I suspect that the company man which is swedish law will simply bend over and take a good ole american shafting...
Last week, the Danowsky Partners law firm filed documents with the Stockholm District Court on behalf of the Swedish affiliates of the Universal, EMI, Sony and Warner record companies urging the court to start fining Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde if The Pirate Bay site isn’t taken offline.
Not that it matters, but this is what I based my earlier post on.
Inlet
But worst of all, the production companies are trying to hush these atrocities under a gag order! Not only are people being considered criminals under laws which at best have debatable legitimacy, they are also being slowly condemned to silence against this injustice.
HOPEFULLY IN THE END JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL!! PIRATPARTIET 2009!!
As it has been beatin to death here, copyright infringment is not the same as stealing. I wouldn't buy any of the worthless crap I have downloaded over the years, so therefore these evil empires would never see a dime from me anyway. Is it wrong in the eyes of the law? Sure, it is. Do I actually care of give a ? Nope. I remember buying CDs in the early 90's for $15 a pop, back then it actually cost money to stamp one out. Today it cost pennies to stamp out the same thing, nice profit margins. Maybe they should refocus their expenditures on new technologies and not lawyers. These worthless companies should take note of the following industries that are getting hammered by new technologies; NEWSPAPERS AND THE USPS.
...i still use iTunes for music downloads when I want some thing to listen to that doesn't suck, for movies....I just gave up. All the good movies are free on TV anyway.
They only keep proving that they are scared shitless, narrow minded money grubbing whores. They deserve everything they get.....
It is not like the quality fo most of the content we are sold is good to begin with, they need peer to peer traffic, it is free advertising for the crap they push, if you really like something you go out and buy!
This is like prosecuting the postal service, there is a great deal of criminal activity via the post, however are they on trial here? they are a medium of communication nothing else.
I have friends working for studios in the US, whose executives deliberately leaked movies for download in various sites ahead of the release date, in order to create demand and gauge the traffic thus allowing them to decide if they will continue to invest on a potential dog of a show!
Get a life Mr.Studio GM! I wonder how much they spent on greasing the palms of the judges.