20 years ago, Pirate Bay’s response
Holy shit I’m so old 😭
20 years ago
Sees letter is dated 2004…
Why have you done this to me?
no Swedish law is being violated
Unfortunately, Swedish courts disagreed
Not at that time. That came after the us government pushed the swedish government to do something and they in turn “strongly hinted” to the swedish judiciary system that they better do something.
And finally the sentencing judge socialised professionally with pro-copyright lobbyists.
That came after the us government pushed the swedish government
🎶 We’re all living in Amerika, Amerika ist wunderbar 🎵
It is quite interesting that American corporations harass everyone, not just us Americans.
I got together with the other Americans, and we’re cool of you all want to do something about them.
One day I hope to write a “go fuck yourself” email of this caliber.
If every peasant started treating his opressor like this, we might actually start getting results.
We would need all peasants doing it at once. One peasant doing it just means you get your head cut off, which unfortunately doesn’t help.
IIRC, the US accusers even quoted US federal law at TPB in emails preceding this. They had probably just assumed TPB were US based and this response where how they found out.
I’m still salty about Sweden bending over about this, tho. Sovereignty is a lie.
The hunt for the cofounders of torrent site The Pirate Bay was a lengthy game of cat-and-mouse, spanning several continents. In the end, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm all ended up in prison.
Despite all the lawsuits, it’s still sailing
But not run by the original owners. And the current team is really shady. I wouldn’t trust downloading an .exe from there.
Good thing you don’t download executables from torrent sites?
Well, many do…
Don’t you ever pirate software?
My point is the executables are delivered by bittorrent, not from the pirate bay.
In that case your comment doesn’t make much sense, because when people say “don’t trust that torrent site” they mean the contents of the torrents hosted there. In fact, if you use magnets, you don’t download anything at all from torrent sites ever.
Riddled with malware, but still sailing
Been using it for decades, never an issue for me. What in the world are you trying to download over there??
Malware
