The Pirate Bay vs Hollywood: final showdown?
With Swedish MPS calling for file sharing to be legalised, Swedish prosecutors now claim to have enough evidence to see the people who run the celebrated index site The Pirate Bay in court by the end of this month.
If that happens, they’ll be facing copyright infringement charges.
“Although The Pirate Bay maintains an index of BitTorrent files, the files themselves are stored on the computers of other people around the world,” notes the Wall Street Journal, going on:
“Because the copyright files aren’t stored on Pirate Bay computers, the site says it isn’t breaking the law. Police, prosecutors and entertainment-industry lawyers say the distinction is bogus. The MPAA estimates The Pirate Bay’s Web site generates $60,000 a month in advertising revenue.”
But Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde says he isn’t sure about exact revenue numbers, stating TPB has never made a profit, “in part because of the high cost of maintaining servers around the world”.
Hollywood, which claims it’s being “devastated” by file sharers, at the same time reporting record-breaking, eye-popping revenues, is behind the move.
But TPB plans to contest the corporate movie industry with the aid of government-funded lawyers for a trial.
“We’re not worried,” the story has Pirate Bay co-founder. Fredrik Neijsaying. “We think the law is on our side.”
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