The Pirate Bay is always in an interesting legal position. Looking at the legal predicaments they always have themselves in allows one to learn quite a bit about the power of the MPAA and other copyright holders and their ability to exercise this power in other countries.
Their legal page is filled with threatening letters from some powerful law firms and groups threatening legal action if The Pirate Bay does not remove various torrents that link to hosts that provide downloads of copyrighted material. The responses that The Pirate Bay sends to these law firms are laughable.
Time and time again, firms threaten to take legal action; however, the contributory copyright law in Sweedon is less strict than that in the United States. These legal firms were able to have the servers seized and taken offline for a couple of days, but they were back online after that. These threats have not been able to keep The Pirate Bay offline.
The most interesting part is if The Pirate Bay linking to various hosts that allow for users to download copyrighted material is actually contributory copyright infringement.
Monday, February 09, 2009
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