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.

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

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?

The 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….

I think not.

The media companies will do whatever they can to harrass the PirateBay because they just fucking hate them. It’s almost symbolic now, they HAVE to beat them some way or another, not that it’ll even have any noticable effect on file-sharing activities if they do.

I respect TPB for apparently keeping a cool head throughout all this as I doubt I could/would.

They better be very special CD’s.

I just can’t wait to see them attempt to prove that *every single* user who downloaded an album would have PURCHASED IT FOR FULL PRICE AT RETAIL if it weren’t available from a torrent. Or for that matter, prove that The Pirate Bay is any more liable for copyright infringement than Yahoo and Google are.

Considering that they keep trying to sue TPB over things that *don’t break Swedish law*, how long will it be before the terrorist oragnization, IFPI, ends up in hot water with the court system, and/or finds itself on the losing end of an aggrevated harassment suit?

I demand 90 trillion dollars.[/quote]

Or I’ll sue

That seems applicable here.

I demand 90 trillion dollars.

This is real unfortunately

The April fools joke is on the TPB frontpage…

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!

hoist the flags!

I bet they will lose in cort