The Pirate Bay Is Being Sued Again

[wraggster]

BuR4N writes with news that 10 US movie companies have filed a suit in Swedish civil court seeking to shut down The Pirate Bay and impose a fine on its three former operators, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde, as well as the site's bandwidth supplier. Speaking to Torrentfreak, Sunde said, "It's another day in the whole soap opera of TPB. They're suing us in Stockholm where none of us live. They're suing us over something which we don't own. I think the most funny part of the whole suit is that they just write: 'Reservella is a company run by Fredrik Neij' — out of 40 pages of paper that's all they have to say, and it's so wrong. They have no paperwork to back it up." Meanwhile, plans for The Pirate Bay to be sold to Global Gaming X seem to have stalled.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/29/1413203/The-Pirate-Bay-Is-Being-Sued-Again

[VampDude]

The Pirate Bay is big these days, in the media.

I think it's funny how they are merely just directing to the many thousands of files that are on a million PC's, though the million PC's with the illegal files aren't getting sued... The Pirate Bay will succeed in one way or another, because they don't physically hold the many thousand movies, games and music albums that are available to download. I reckon that the torrents which are on TPB are shared with the other torrent sites, so therefore the big sites like Torrent Reactor, SumoTorrent and MiniNova should also be named in the battle... Unless of course TPB are being targeted merely because they are called The Pirate Bay with the courts only seeing one word.

All the torrent sites should go, even LimeWire which isn't torrents but from what I understand the files you share are from a specified folder in the options so it's the same in those terms.

P2P networks should be monitored, and then closed... Targeting the people who supply the files, and then those who download.

That is most probably where TPB aren't taking any of this seriously, because they're not acting against the actual pirates themselves.