DMCA applied outside the US
p2pnet.net News:- Demand for Immediate Take-Down: Notice of Infringing Activity
This letter serves as notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. ยง 512, or equivalent notice provisions of your local law, that content currently residing within your computer system infringes on the copyrights of Microsoft Corporation. Moreover, the source code contains proprietary trade secret information belonging to Microsoft. I am authorized to act on behalf of Microsoft in this matter.
Notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act? Yep. Never mind that the recipient was Swedish BitTorrent tracker Piratebay.org, the last one standing of the Big BT sites, and that the DMCA has absolutely no application outside of the US of A.
This was almost exactly a year ago and the signeee was one James Young, “Internet Investigator” for Microsoft.
“We get tons of these,” says PB.
Other legal threats came from:
- Mono Music: email (swedish)
- DreamWorks: email postal mail our response
- EA: email our response
- Uppsala universitet: emails our response mail exchange back and forth final mail (they also called the phone# in whois) (swedish)
- ADV Films: email our response
- Sublimal Sounds: email our response 2nd mail and response
- SEGA: email our response 2nd mail 3rd mail and response
- Sveriges Radio: email our response (swedish)
- Peter Pehrson – enya.com / Warner Music: email our response
Members of the entertainment industry, such as DreamWorks, are also fond of using the same ploy, as is Canadian ISP Cogeco.
Is there nowhere the DMCA can’t be used? Apparently not. But is it effective?
“No action (except ridiculing the senders) has been taken by us 
” says PB. And this is amply borne out by a pair of Piratebay.org graphs.
One shows a sharp increase in the number of nasty emails. The other, showing the number of torrents deleted as a direct result, is a flat line.
Is there a lesson here?
Something you think we should know? tips[at]p2pnet.net
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See:-
Internet Investigator – Legal threats against The Pirate Bay
same ploy - DMCA League of Nations, p2pnet, August 30, 2004
February 13th, 2005 at 5:22 pm
keep up the good work Pirate Bay! ^_^
the american dmca crap has no athority there!
February 13th, 2005 at 9:49 pm
Don’t they know they must bow to THE STATE????????????
The DMSA…
The Digital Millenium Stalin Act.