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Will The Pirate Bay shut down by the end of July?
Settled as No
It be still alive and kicking, arrrrr http://thepiratebay.org/
Background:
The Pirate Bay, the web's premier BitTorrent tracker, is being hit with another suit from the MPAA demanding $15.4 million to cover the damages they suffered from 4 movies and 13 TV-episodes that were made available via TPB. (TorrentFreak http://tinyurl.com/4t692m)
Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde (Brokep) was pretty non-plussed by the claim: “They know they are losing, and try to make us look like big criminals by adding some zeros to a claim for a made-up crime.”
“The worst thing is that I lost 100 kronor on a bet on the number they would come up with,” Sunde added. “And, it sucks that they didn’t claim more than for Napster and the other sites. It’s cooler to break the record.”
Competing torrent search engine, TorrentSpy shuttered earlier this year and has just been hit with a $110 million fine handed down by a LA Federal Court. The Pirate Bay, which on April 1st relocated to the Sinai desert (http://tinyurl.com/3232wl) [joke], claims it is protected under Swedish law. However, MPAA isn't giving up. Could this be the end of Pirate Bay?
Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde (Brokep) was pretty non-plussed by the claim: “They know they are losing, and try to make us look like big criminals by adding some zeros to a claim for a made-up crime.”
“The worst thing is that I lost 100 kronor on a bet on the number they would come up with,” Sunde added. “And, it sucks that they didn’t claim more than for Napster and the other sites. It’s cooler to break the record.”
Competing torrent search engine, TorrentSpy shuttered earlier this year and has just been hit with a $110 million fine handed down by a LA Federal Court. The Pirate Bay, which on April 1st relocated to the Sinai desert (http://tinyurl.com/3232wl) [joke], claims it is protected under Swedish law. However, MPAA isn't giving up. Could this be the end of Pirate Bay?
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Settled as No on Fri 1st Aug 1:21am PDT
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Created Fri 9th May 6:26am PDT by nigeleccles
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Slyck 10 weeks ago
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