no Swedish law is being violated
Unfortunately, Swedish courts disagreed
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2024
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Not at that time. That came after the us government pushed the swedish government to do something and they in turn "strongly hinted" to the swedish judiciary system that they better do something.
And finally the sentencing judge socialised professionally with pro-copyright lobbyists.
That came after the us government pushed the swedish government
🎶 We're all living in Amerika, Amerika ist wunderbar 🎵
It is quite interesting that American corporations harass everyone, not just us Americans.
I got together with the other Americans, and we're cool of you all want to do something about them.
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20 years ago, Pirate Bay's response
Holy shit I'm so old 😭
20 years ago
Sees letter is dated 2004...
Why have you done this to me?
That's like 8 years ago.
...
Wait... crap. We are old.
I refuse to think of 2000 as anything but the future where will all have flying cars.
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sad Napster noises
One day I hope to write a "go fuck yourself" email of this caliber.
Despite all the lawsuits, it's still sailing
But not run by the original owners. And the current team is really shady. I wouldn't trust downloading an .exe from there.
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Riddled with malware, but still sailing
Been using it for decades, never an issue for me. What in the world are you trying to download over there??
Malware
Well if he's daft enough to go looking for it, what's he expecting?
Malware
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I'd say this might be true for programs, but as long as you download movies, shows and music I'd assume it's fine as long as you use common sense.
The technologically illiterate pirate is an easy target.
Just don't download any software and you'll be fine. Sure, there are better trackers for movies, TV shows and music nowadays, but I'm still glad we have The Pirate Bay
The Darknet Diaries podcast made a really good episode about The Pirate Bay, telling the entire story, including funny stories like the responses to these letters, and interviewing Peter Sunde, one of the 3 founders. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/92/
Thanks, you gave me a new podcast to listen to.
It’s one of my favorites! Also check out Search Engine, one of my favorite new podcasts with an amazing host. “What’s the best phone to do crimes on”, the latest episode, is excellent—Darknet Diaries covered the subject as well, but this goes into even more detail.
I also loved “Who’s behind all those spammy text messages?” but that one gets DARK.
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IIRC, the US accusers even quoted US federal law at TPB in emails preceding this. They had probably just assumed TPB were US based and this response where how they found out.
I'm still salty about Sweden bending over about this, tho. Sovereignty is a lie.
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Actually absolute bad-asses!
Based
BASED
The hunt for the cofounders of torrent site The Pirate Bay was a lengthy game of cat-and-mouse, spanning several continents. In the end, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm all ended up in prison.
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