Big 4 labels escalate attack on The Pirate Bay
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music who, since Day One, have been the leaders in entertainment cartel attacks on the online P2P sharing communities, have upped the ante against The Pirate Bay four, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (top), Frederik Neij (left), Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (centre) and Carl Lundström.
Sweden lost The Pirate Bay case, we posted when the verdict the four were sentenced to one year in jail and ordered to each pay SEK 30 million ($3.59 million) in damages came down.
“Stockholm district court had an opportunity to demonstrate to the world that Sweden is still the free and progressive country it was once famous for being,” p2pnet said at the time, adding:
“Instead, it confirmed that like America, it’s little more than another music and movie industry enforcement, sales and marketing division which puts corporate interests before those of its citizens.”
Now the corporate music industry in the shape of the Big 4 labels wants additional fines levied against TPB operators Neij, Warg and Sunde, says TorrentFreak.
Bank accounts belonging to the four, “may have been frozen by the Kronofogden, Sweden`s official debt collection agency,” said p2pnet recently, quoting The Local as saying the agency had, “already sent payment orders to the four men convicted in the case demanding they pay the first 12.1 million kronor ($1.5 million) of the 30 million kronor damages claim that accompanied the guilty verdict against them.”
In the latest part of the continuing effort to crush P2P and file sharing, with TPB as the poster targets, “According to DN.se, the application to the district court describes The Pirate Bay as an ‘infringing service’,” says enigmax in TorrentFreak, going on »»»
The plaintiffs claim that they have been able to download 467 music albums to which they own the copyright, via The Pirate Bay.
Because of this, the record companies have demanded that the operators of The Pirate Bay – Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi – take steps to ensure that it is impossible for Internet users to download any of the works to which they own the copyright, using The Pirate Bay.
Additionally, in what appears to be an attack on The Pirate Bay`s bandwidth supplier, the plaintiffs are demanding that the ISP `Black Internet` stops providing services to The Pirate Bay.
Worryingly, the application also asks the court to start applying the requested financial penalties before the District Court actually rules on it and that the four defendants shouldn`t be allowed to comment.
IT security expert André Rickardsson told DN.se that he was surprised the record companies have asked for The Pirate Bay operators to be fined.
“Swedish law applies in Sweden and their Internet service isn’t even in Sweden,” DN.se has Rickardsson stating.
“I don’t understand why the district court has anything to do with this,” he says. “The Pirate Bay operates in countries where the activity is permitted.”
p2pnet – Sweden loses The Pirate Bay case, April 17, 2009
TorrentFreak – Record Labels Increase Legal Pressure on Pirate Bay, May 19, 2009
have been frozen – Have Pirate Bay bank accounts been frozen?, May 15, 2009
The Local – Sweden to freeze guilty Pirates` loot, May 12, 2009
DN.se – Skivbolag trappar upp striden mot Pirate Bay, May 19, 2009
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May 19th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Jon, for more on this see http://www.thelocal.se/19544/20090519/
Cheers!
May 19th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
per the article above:
“The filing also requests that the fines apply even before the District Court rules on the request and that Neij, Svartholm Warg, and Sunde be barred from speaking out on the matter until the case has had a final verdict in the Swedish court system.”
Damn right they want to stop them from speaking. There is an election coming up in sweden and the “alternate” parties ranks have swelled.
This is not good for corporate (cartel) america and their foreign policies and investments with certain people in swedish society (heh like the paid off cops).
They should be making more waves.
May 19th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
The RIAA just want the money.
if TPB were to actually go offline how would they be able to buy a new Land Rover or Hummer.
they are just a bunch of greedy pricks who think they can do what they want.
May 19th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
And with Joe Biden et.al. running the DOJ now, they pretty much think that the war is over and they’ll win no problem. I’m waiting for the countersuits to go thru and watch the bums cry and whine when those new porches and hummers are hauled away along with them in cuffs and the RIAA and MPAA are shut down permanently.
They know damn well if this goes to the appeals court what the result will be. The judge’s bias will be revealed along with the fact that he works for the recording industry in Sweden and should of recused himself under the law, but didn’t, and the entire thing could well be thrown out and the RIAA and it’s brethren in Europe could find themselves facing charges of tampering as well as having the fines reversed from the four owners of TPB and put on them.
May 20th, 2009 at 2:23 am
A perfect example of how to ensure the other side gets most attention in the eyes of the young. Remeber folks we are the ones who will be taking care of you and voting for your future care in 10+ years. So yes do piss us off now and see how the world turns.
Pirate party is now the third largest political party in Sweden, and most likely to get some seats in EU parliment. You wanted young people to get involved in politics, well here you go.
May 20th, 2009 at 5:50 am
These RIAA/MPAA guys and their lawer are fool and have no idea about the risk they are taking at the moment.
Seriously soemone should warn them to stop pulling the tail of the tiger.
What a pack of idiots who think they can do anything they want without consequences.
May 20th, 2009 at 6:18 am
Ther RIAA/MPAA parasites are mad because they realized that they can not shut down the pirate bay no matter what they do.
Their only achievement was to demonstrate what a pack of criminals and antisocials they are. It is now up to the people to take the necessary actions to get ride of this cancer.
Another negative consequence was the demonstration of how corruptible and how powerless the Swedish justice is since the riging of the trial was very obvious and since it is still unable to shutdown the pirate bay regardless of the verdict of the pseudo court.