Prince To Take On The Pirate Bay

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"Prince, described by some people as one of the most creative and talented musicians, hired the infamous “Web Sheriff” who announced lawsuits against The Pirate Bay in the U.S., France and Sweden. “Way to go on losing all your fans” was the first response of Pirate Bay admin Brokep."

"In September we already reported that Prince hired the Web-Sheriff in an attempt to bring down the Pirate Bay. Web Sheriff now gave out some more details on the upcoming legal battles.

The Sheriff is convinced that he has a strong case and told CNET News: “There is no way that they will have any defense because it’s blatant piracy. They’ll either have to come out and fight or just try and ignore it. In that case, we’re going to win a default judgment against them. This could be a ticking time bomb for them. They can’t outrun this. We are very confident.”

Pirate Bay admin Brokep was not impressed by Web Sheriff’s expressed confidence, and told us earlier: “He’s welcome to try and sue us in Sweden, there’s no basis. And it’s so funny that he’s teaming up with the joke of the anti piracy world - Web Sheriff.”

In addition to suing The Pirate Bay, Web Sheriff also told CNET News that he will go after the companies that advertise on the popular BitTorrent tracker and that he will be involved an investigation into The Pirate Bay’s money streams.

This is not the first time the Web Sheriff, also known as John Giacobbi, clashes with The Pirate Bay. Some hilarious email correspondence is still available on The Pirate Bay’s legal threat page."

:source: Source: TorrentFreak
:view: View: Prince threatens to sue b3ta - November 14, 2007

thank god I am not listening prince anymore :P

Hopefully this results in more hilarious legal threats on the DMCA page of TPB.

It must be great being the owners of TPB. They can litterally spit in just about anyones face when it comes to lawsuits.

yeap, they are gods in the internet

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Originally Posted by jokzor

yeap, they are gods in the internet

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really? I think it was them who brought attention to the world of BT in the first place.

Yeah, TPB will be standing long after all the cool sites are down. Not that it isn't cool, but it's not got great speeds...

They're also sending DMCA notices to the admin at B3ta asking him to remove images that have been created for the current image challenge, which was to photoshop images of Prince because of the above action (amongst others)

Talk about irony... :dabs:

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