February 15, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Motion_picture_association":
Science & Technology: 8 Dec 10
Hackers brought down the website of the Swedish prosecutor's office on Tuesday night in an apparent show of support for embattled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was remanded by a British court earlier in the day.
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Business & Money: 26 Aug 09
The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular filesharing websites, was back online on Tuesday hours after being shut down following a Swedish court order.
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Society: 12 Feb 09
Operators of The Pirate Bay stand trial on Monday in Stockholm. The four defendants from the popular file-sharing web site are charged with being accessories to breaking copyright law and may face fines or up to two years in prison if found guilty.
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Science & Technology: 28 Aug 08
The pending trial of the men behind the file sharing site The Pirate Bay has been pushed back yet again and may not start before next year.
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Society: 16 May 08
Michael Jackson and the owners of the rights to the music of Bob Marley are planning to sue the founders of file sharing website The Pirate Bay.
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Business & Money: 8 May 08
The Motion Picture Association of the United States (MPA) has demanded 93 million kronor ($15 million) in compensation from file sharing site The Pirate Bay.
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Science & Technology: 22 Feb 07
Following its failed attempt to buy a North Sea naval platform, The Pirate Bay is now setting its sights elsewhere. But any eventual purchase will be purely symbolic, as the people behind the file-sharing website are determined to remain in Stockholm.
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Science & Technology: 19 Feb 07
An elite corps of Swedish police has been trained to combat Internet piracy by the FBI and American lobbying organization the Motion Picture Association.
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National: 16 Jan 07
Shiver me timbers! The biggest retailer in the world teams up with Swedish pirates in a bid to make more doubloons and pieces of eight from Christmas DVD sales.
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Science & Technology: 12 Jan 07
Swedish file sharing site The Pirate Bay has launched plans to buy an independent 'nation' on a former British naval platform. The site owners hope being based on Sealand will help get round copyright laws.
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Society: 21 Jun 06
The American government warned Sweden that it would face tough sanctions at the World Trade Organization if it did not crack down on internet piracy, it has emerged.
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National: 11 Jun 06
The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular websites for illegal downloading of movies, has doubled its number of visitors after Swedish police shut down the site for three days.
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National: 2 Jun 06
SEE ALSO: Raid on The Pirate Bay hits other sites
Reports that the US government was behind the action against the Sweden-based file sharing site have resulted in the Swedish government being reported to the country's Constitutional Committee.
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Business & Money: 1 Jun 06
The Swedish police's raids on The Pirate Bay resulted in a number of other websites being taken offline, after police took all the servers at hosting company PRQ.
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National: 27 Sep 05
Swedish website BlueCrap, alleged to have pirated 15,000 films and TV programmes, has been shut down after the US-based Motion Picture Association threatened to go to the courts.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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