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MPAA: We’re No Pirates! You Are Thieves! Or?
The MPAA is outraged and offended by "The Pirate Bay and their apologists" who "seek to justify profiting from digital theft" by referring to Hollywood's founders as pirates. Not true, they claim. Instead, the early inhabitants of Hollywood were independent filmmakers who were censored by a copyright monopoly. They were freedom fighters who saw no other option than to infringe patents for the sake of creativity.
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Pirate Party Sues Hollywood Backed Group over Pirate Bay Censorship
The Dutch Pirate Party is taking local anti-piracy group BREIN to court in the hope of overturning a recent order that prohibits the Party from operating a Pirate Bay proxy site. The Pirates claim that the Hollywood backed group is ... Read Post
MPAA Hacker Spied on The Pirate Bay
Court documents show that a hacker, hired by the MPAA, offered to reveal the identities of the Pirate Bay founders. The hacker, who also retrieved private information from TorrentSpy, was paid $15.000 for his efforts. Read Post
Pirate Bay Founder Will be Extradited to Denmark
Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm will be extradited to Denmark where he faces several new hacking charges. In Denmark, Gottfrid is accused of downloading a large number of files, including police records, from the mainframe of ... Read Post