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[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 233 points 5 months ago

no Swedish law is being violated

Unfortunately, Swedish courts disagreed

[-] Zpiritual@lemm.ee 186 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 105 points 5 months ago

That came after the us government pushed the swedish government

🎶 We're all living in Amerika, Amerika ist wunderbar 🎵

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 26 points 5 months ago

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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[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S 163 points 5 months ago

20 years ago, Pirate Bay's response

Holy shit I'm so old 😭

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 82 points 5 months ago

20 years ago

Sees letter is dated 2004...

Why have you done this to me?

[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 37 points 5 months ago

That's like 8 years ago.

...

Wait... crap. We are old.

[-] zerofk@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I refuse to think of 2000 as anything but the future where will all have flying cars.

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sad Napster noises

[-] HeartyOfGlass@lemm.ee 135 points 5 months ago

One day I hope to write a "go fuck yourself" email of this caliber.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 50 points 5 months ago

If every peasant started treating his opressor like this, we might actually start getting results.

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 37 points 5 months ago

We would need all peasants doing it at once. One peasant doing it just means you get your head cut off, which unfortunately doesn't help.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 9 points 5 months ago

Some truth in that for sure.

I was talking more about when you get a chance to dunk one these clowns and you can do without getting hurt or you are willing to take calculated risk. Do it!

Most plebs now either too scared or otherwise unwilling to some basic FAFO and this made owner class brazen

Piracy is one of the best tools to tell the regime to get fucked IMHO

Seeing them bent our of shape over it is some of the best cope entertainment out there

[-] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 101 points 5 months ago

Despite all the lawsuits, it's still sailing

[-] Treedrake@fedia.io 46 points 5 months ago

But not run by the original owners. And the current team is really shady. I wouldn't trust downloading an .exe from there.

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 24 points 5 months ago

Good thing you don't download executables from torrent sites?

[-] Treedrake@fedia.io 21 points 5 months ago
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[-] TheNewShaft@lemm.ee 17 points 5 months ago

Riddled with malware, but still sailing

[-] aiccount@monyet.cc 50 points 5 months ago

Been using it for decades, never an issue for me. What in the world are you trying to download over there??

[-] fraksken@infosec.pub 120 points 5 months ago
[-] ma1w4re@lemm.ee 43 points 5 months ago
[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 months ago

Well if he's daft enough to go looking for it, what's he expecting?

[-] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 53 points 5 months ago
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[-] Treedrake@fedia.io 25 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] blandfordforever@lemm.ee 22 points 5 months ago

The technologically illiterate pirate is an easy target.

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[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 90 points 5 months ago

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/

[-] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 months ago

Thanks, you gave me a new podcast to listen to.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 months ago

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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[-] xeekei@lemm.ee 88 points 5 months ago

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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[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 35 points 5 months ago

Actually absolute bad-asses!

[-] clot27@lemm.ee 31 points 5 months ago
[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 27 points 5 months ago
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[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 5 months ago
[-] Fontasia@feddit.nl 25 points 5 months ago

Remember when they tried to buy Sealand?

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[-] pedz@lemmy.ca 15 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 9 points 5 months ago

This puts me in mind of Arkell vs. Pressdram.

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