The Pirate Bay supporters hack IFPI sites
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- It’s hard to imagine how companies which depend entirely on the goodwill of the people they sell to have allowed a situation to develop in which they’re not merely disliked, but actively hated. And not just in one market area, but throughout the world.
That, however, is what the corporate music and movie industries have achieved, and as more and more people open internet accounts, more and moreof them are joining the millions of former product consumers who now look to independent music sources and resources for their fixes, disdaining the formulaic, cookie cutter offerings of Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG.
And awareness is being further heightened by the lawsuit currently underway in Sweden where huge, and obscenely wealthy, movie and music houses are trying to hang four young men out to dry.
So it’s no surprise to learn hackers have attacked several corporate music industry IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) sites.
“Stop lying HÃ KAN ROSWALL!, says one of them, reported by enigmax on TorrentFreak.
Roswall is the inept Swedish prosecutor who’s representing Warner Bros, MGM, EMI, Colombia Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Sony BMG and Universal as the companies try to nail TPB’s Bay Fredrik Neij (TiAMO), Gottfrid Svartholm (Anakata) Warg, Peter Sunde (Brokep) and Carl Lundström for alleged copyright infringement.
Together, the four run The Pirate Bay, which boasts it’s the world’s largest bittorrent tracker
Engimax says hackers penetrated an IFPI site, replacing its normal content with the text »»»
The ruthless hunt conducted by the IFPI, Anti-Piracy Office, Warner Bros., and all the other companies with a pawn in the game has now resulted in a trial in which four innocent men are accused of copyright infringement. This is a declaration of war against anti-piracy outfits and the industry players behind them, and we urge the public to boycott and lynch those responsible. IFPI is just the beginning. To be Continued.
Sunde, however, “is pleading with the hackers to stop,”" says TorrentFreak.
“Our case is going quite well as most of you have noticed,” the story has him saying. “In the light of that it feels very bad that people are hacking web sites which actually puts us in a worse light than we need to be in,” he said.
“If anyone involved in the acts going on is reading this – please stop, for our sake. We don’t need that kind of support.”
However, much of the tide of ill-will washing against the studios and labels has been generated over the years by TPB itself and it isn’t surprising to see it manifested in this way.
But this is the wrong kind of protest at the wrong time, Sunde seems to be saying, and, “If anyone involved in the acts going on is reading this – please stop, for our sake,” he says in TorrentFreak. “We don’t need that kind of support.”
However, Peter, you reap what you sow.
Stay tuned.
underway in Sweden – The Pirate Bay vs Them: Day Three, February 18, 2009
TorrentFreak – Pirate Bay Plea: Stop Hacking the Music Industry!, February 19, 2009
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