Anti-Piracy Outfit Pirates TorrentFreak
Written by Ernesto on November 19, 2007The infamous Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN has infringed TorrentFreak’s copyright and blatantly copied a quote from one of our articles without attributing the source. TorrentFreak is thus considering legal action against these copy/paste pirates, where they may face a fine of up to $975,000 and several years in prison.
Today, BREIN published a press release (translated) full of half-truths in which they pride themselves over the recent move of SumoTorrent to Canada. In the press release they refer to TorrentFeak as a “pirate weblog”, and use a quote from an interview we did with the SumoTorrent administrator a little over a week ago. However, they do not link back to the original article, they don’t even mention TorrentFreak at all, thereby infringing on our copyright license.
Shocking indeed, who could have ever thought that these noble copyright protectors would be capable of such barbaric practices? Maybe they’ll start stealing children next?
The reason why BREIN didn’t link back to us is obvious, they don’t want the public to read a “pirate weblog” so they would find out what they’re really like. BREIN is known to threaten, intimidate and scare P2P webmasters, and they are pretty successful at it.
Like most other anti-piracy organizations, BREIN is above all a propaganda machine that effectively twists the truth to educate Internet users. They are a puppet of the MPAA and large media corporations and were recently awarded by Hollywood with an anti-piracy Oscar (translated) for its effectiveness. They even have a trophy cabinet in their offices to show off to their visitors.
Unfortunately, BREIN is not the only anti-piracy organization that infringes copyright. In February we reported that the MPAA used “Forest Blog” software without authorization. The software had been completely stripped of his name, and links back to his site, thereby violating the linkware license. The MPAA later said that they were only testing the software. Not that it makes any difference, but why should one (willingly) remove all credits to the developer if it’s only a test?
But the MPAA doesn’t only steal software, they also pirate films. For those who haven’t seen the great documentary “This Film Is Not Yet Rated“, the MPAA openly admitted that they made unauthorized copies themselves. Kirby Dick, the producer of the documentary found out that the film that he submitted for screening purposes was copied without his permission. Say what?
So who’s calling who a pirate here?
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OH THE IRONY
Fight them at their own game!
Also, second youtube link is dead.. the one under the caption “admitted they made unauthorized copies”
I was about to just send an invite to BREIN, so they could join my game-related tracker but after this? Hell no!
Hypocritical lamers!
well there good at one thing then
cntradicting themselves
the a-holes
Bastards
[quote comment="218247"]Also, second youtube link is dead.. the one under the caption “admitted they made unauthorized copies”[/quote]
And I second that
Sue em. Please, dont say this is just a warning pleeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
[quote comment="218253"][quote comment="218247"]Also, second youtube link is dead.. the one under the caption “admitted they made unauthorized copies”[/quote]
And I second that[/quote]
The clip was removed, I changed the link to the wikipedia entry.
die BREIN. u cant even play by the rules of the CC licence!
sue em till the cows come home.
Sue them!
Greedy sleazebags.
Unless Torrentfreak has friends in cabinet, you cant win a law suit.
Arn’t BRIEN or RIAA or whatever allowed to copy whatever they like? Don’t they now own copyright ?
The hunters become the hunted…
You guys are such HYPOCRITES!! You don’t want to face legal actions for illegally copy/pasting movies and music, and yet, you’re pissed off over “a quote”.
You realize how RIDICULOUS that sounds?!!
Doesn’t sound rediculous to me.
I think #16 has a mental disorder. ?
Someone should start rolling out a legal fund for things like this.
[quote comment="218281"]You realize how RIDICULOUS that sounds?!![/quote]
I see that someone didn’t get it ;)
[quote comment="218281"]You guys are such HYPOCRITES!! You don’t want to face legal actions for illegally copy/pasting movies and music, and yet, you’re pissed off over “a quote”.
You realize how RIDICULOUS that sounds?!![/quote]
you know how ridiculous YOU sound? and we are not the hypocrites…the hypocrites are the RBEIN the MPAA, RIAA, etc
We’re not talking about simply downloading content, we’re talking about using torrentfreak text and twisting it for your ajenda. We don’t download a song, change the words, and rerelease it under the old name do we? I think it’s sort of hypacridical to sue , but whatever. Really, this case is pretty open and shut. Brein or whatever broke a spacific type of copyright, show them what they broke, and it’s pretty hard for Brein to argue against that.
You really should sue them, it would be so fun to see the people bringing down torrent sites to get fooked over themselves! Oh the Irony! Don’t just say it do it!!!
To ha-ha! poster #16:
I don’t think it sounds ridiculous at all. Certainly to us it does but we don’t go around suing people outrageous sums of money for copyright infringement. Since the majority believe that these practices are crap we can only go apeshit when they do it themselves. No matter how “small” the matter seems to be.
[quote comment="218281"]You guys are such HYPOCRITES!! You don’t want to face legal actions for illegally copy/pasting movies and music, and yet, you’re pissed off over “a quote”.
You realize how RIDICULOUS that sounds?!![/quote]
i totally agree with you dude… this site is all about supporting piracy and all, and they post articles (if you can call them that) about how unjust it is that people have to face court for downloading movies, but they wanna bring charges against a corporation for using a quote.
Do you guys seriously think you can win on a charge like this?!?!?!? If you do you’re even more retarded than i had ever thought.
Itll be a laugh when you have to post a “we lost in court and had to pay all the lawyers fees for BREIN which came to a total of $500 000 so now we’re all bankrupt” article wont it Ernesto?!?!
[quote] You guys are such HYPOCRITES!! You don’t want to face legal actions for illegally copy/pasting movies and music, and yet, you’re pissed off over “a quote”.
You realize how RIDICULOUS that sounds?!!
[/quote]
Come on. This post is just to point out brein’s hypocrisy.
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