IFPI Demands Millions From The Pirate Bay
Written by Ernesto on March 31, 2008The IFPI has announced that it demands $2.5 million from the Pirate Bay in the upcoming court case, to cover the damages they suffered from 24 music albums that were made available on the popular BitTorrent tracker.
Pirate Bay’s Brokep was not impressed by the claims from IFPI and said: “I thought April fools day was tomorrow. We should send IFPI an invoice instead. All studies show that downloading generates more revenue when it comes to music. Downloaders also consume music in other ways and generate more revenue in total.”
The $2.5 million IFPI asks for, represent the lost revenue for every download. Interesting detail, all the (leaked) albums that were shared before they were available in stores are counted twice. They could have quadrupled it if they wanted to, the damages are not based on research anyway.
This January, prosecutor Håkan Roswall had already asked the court for a $188,000 fine for four individuals - Fredrik Neij (”TiAMO”), Gottfrid Svartholm (”Anakata”), Peter Sunde (”Brokep”) and businessman Carl Lundström. The MPA and Antipiratbyrån, the other two parties involved in the case are expected to file damages later.
The legal investigation into the Pirate Bay started almost two years ago, after the controversial raid on the Pirate Bay in May 2006. At the time the Swedish police confiscated 180 servers, most of which had nothing to do with the BitTorrent tracker. Last December the investigation finally came to an end, resulting in 4,000 pages of legal paperwork.
It will probably take a while before the case actually goes to court. Anita Thimberg from the Stockholm district court has said earlier that the case is likely to be delayed until after the summer due to its “complexity”.
Stay Tuned!
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I wish companies would understand that piracy is just second nature.
IFPI, I demand that you close down your offices. That will easily save you $2.5 millions per year. And you will not need to worry about future losses anymore.
IFPI, I demand that you fire yourself and get a job, you lazy bunch. If you think you can get your money from those who don’t earn enough anymore to buy music, you are wrong.
IFPI, I demand that you take deregulation to heart and save the money you spend on yourself. Give it back to the creatives who actually make music.
IFPI, I demand that you give back the 80 million recorded CDs/DVDs and the 60 million unrecorded CDs/DVDs that you seized in 2005. It just drives the market price for recording media, which makes us download even more on HD.
IFPI, I demand that you give up on your intellectual property claims. Intellectual property crime is used to fund terrorist groups, as stated by Ronald Noble, Secretary General of Interpol, July 2003.
All this can be concluded from or read in http://www.tradingideas.org/UserFiles/File/Presentations/Session5_Leong_May_Seey.pdf
Complaints and suggestions to LeongMayseey@ifpi.org
But mind you, all the information is “Strictly Privileged & Confidential”
P.S.
The best one in the presentation cited above is the “Digital File Check”, haha. It tells you in three simple steps if your computer
1) contains file sharing software
2) has files in shared folders that are likely to be illegal
3) and gives you a complete inventory of music, videos and images
Well, the inventory might be sort of useful, depending on the interface and whether one can hook in applications to play that stuff:-D However, I would strongly advise to disconnect the computer from the net, if you really want to play around with that spyware. It most certainly reports the results directly to the IFPI. Yeah, and it seems to run (or be planned to run) in a browser, so that even the internet-newbie-parents can get their children into trouble. Well done, IFPI. Do you know why we don’t respect you?
2.5 mill … retards they will still be losing because their “fleet” of lawyers will cost more than that in a month
[quote comment="324811"]I think Sweden seems too sane for this; the dinosaur mafIAA might actually have to prove, on a dollar-to-dollar basis, that specific customers were willing to pay for the music and would have paid for the music, but because of the services provided by the pirate bay did not pay for the music; good luck!!
I can see it now:
“Achtung! All college-students, pirates, and freedom advocates; we request your immediate presence at court, and your testimony that if only the pirate bay didn’t exist you would have bought any number of these 22 songs; your co-operation in this matter of fining and jailing those who were arrogant enough to legally share music with you will be smiled upon by us; you will not be richly rewarded, however.”
“Ach! Actually, maybe we will richly reward you; come one, come all! Testify against the piratebay and we’ll give you a stuffed dinosaur and a free I-bought-the-law-and-the-law’s-son bumper sticker!!!”
…yeah, that’d never work.But.
GO RON PAUL !!! He’s still in the race and he won’t drop out![/quote]
Hear Hear. When will these “authorities” learn
My company & I are going to demand $50M from the IFPI, for reasons as yet undecided upon. I don’t have a company yet but plan to arrange one. I think it a great idea which ought to be further encouraged. When they refuse to pay I’m going to sue, and do all the legal work myself to save costs. It might drag out for years, but hey, I’ve got plenty of time and nothing better to do. See yas in court boys.
I thought that because of relativistic effects the IFPI could’t get any more ridiculous than it already was. Real life proved me wrong. By their zeal the fine art of utter stupidity has just made a bis step ahead.
But then again, after the IFPI will have filled bankruptcy, none of its employees will have any troubles finding a new job in his/her local circus.
Learn more about this here > http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4310526/Steal_This_Film_1_2_ENG_(2006-07).avi
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