Anti-Piracy Lobby Pressures Police to Take On The Pirate Bay

[Hairbautt]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/Hairbautt/News%20Images/TorrentFreak.png"The Portuguese counterparts of the RIAA, BSA and MPAA sent the Swedish police a letter in which they demanded “swift enforcement of the law” in The Pirate Bay case. They argue that the Pirate Bay is responsible for several BitTorrent related court cases in Portugal and is affecting right holders worldwide."

"According to the letter, BitTorrent - and more specifically - The Pirate Bay, is responsible for the decline in sales and the unemployment of many authors, composers, artists, musicians, actors, video and record producers. Therefore, the content owners gently urge the police to speed up their investigation in the Pirate Bay case.

Pressure from anti-piracy lobbyists is not really a new phenomenon for the Swedish authorities. A month prior to the Pirate Bay raid, Executive Vice President of the MPAA wrote a letter (PDF) to Sweden’s State Secretary in which he stated:

“It is certainly not in Sweden’s best interests to earn a reputation among other nations and trading partners as a place where utter lawlessness with respect to intellectual property rights is tolerated.”

Perhaps even worse, after the raid it became apparent that the US had threatened to put Sweden on WTO’s blacklist because they didn’t take the Pirate Bay down.

However, these and other threats won’t solve the case. Unfortunately for some, the police need actual evidence if they want to take legal action against The Pirate Bay, something that they don’t have at this point. Even after more than a year, the police have nothing to go on.

Up until today, The Pirate Bay servers remain in custody and the police still hope to find something. In fact, prosecutor Håkan Roswall is still convinced that he will eventually press charges against the Pirate Bay admins. The Pirate Bay is not really impressed by this announced prosecution, and according to a leak within the Swedish police, they don’t have much to be afraid of."

"Below is a copy of the letter sent last month on behalf of the Portuguese counterparts of the RIAA, BSA and MPAA."

[Visit Source Link for the letter]

:source: Source: TorrentFreak (http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-lobby-pressures-police-to-take-on-the-pirate-bay/)

[jokzor]

i'm from portugal
sadly most of our people lived uneducated from salazar regime (from wwII and after)
so there's no surprise that the government elected from the majority uneducated, feeds on us, and pushes on a "coypright enforcement kind of action" while leaving many people poor and with nothing to loose, wich makes violence, rape and burglars increase, but my point is, even the actions against those criminals are the same than 20 years ago, while government stupidity puts that kind of pressure you can read above
it was the only chance portuguese ppl could learn and give a step ahead on education, but they rather give a step behind, could they be more FUCKING STUPID?

If you are reading this, durão barroso, josé sócrates, cavaco silva and all others currently wishing to rule, please, finish your degree or go rule second life.. well, do both just to be sure..
its becoming a shit hole here
forgive us

[arkiebrian]

Oh those poor unemployed artists. I guess they won't be appearing on MTV's cribs with their assorted Lamborghinis any more. Boo hoo!

I love the guys at Pirate Bay. They have balls. I even bought a t shirt from them.

[jokzor]

the artist barely complaint cause the ones suffering are the producers and all the staff involved, i can understand them, but they could push artists too if they were smart, they have a lot more money than us :)

[Hairbautt]

I even bought a t shirt from them.
Where do I download? (jk)