Sweden sues ‘illegal’ download site
Posted by Jefrey Teaser on May 21st, 2008
Capital of Sweden, Sweden
In charges that included top Hollywood product houses as complainants, prosecutor Hakan Roswall focussed on four manpower he stated were responsible for for the organisation, financing and military operation of the land site.
The public prosecutor listed wads of industrial plant that had got been downloadedded through The Pirate Bay, letting in The Beatles record album “Let It Be”, Robbie Williams’ “Intensive Care” and the picture “Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire.“
Complainants in the instance include Warner Bros. Amusement Inc., MGM Pictures Inc., Republic of Colombia Pictures Industries Inc., Twentieth Century Fox Films Co., Sony BMG, Universal and EMI, who have until February 29 to register claims for indemnification.
“We’re non doing anything illegal,” Sunde informated.
The Pirate Bay posted a noncompliant message as the complaints were registerred at the Stockholm district court.
“In case we mislay the pending trial (yea, right) there will still non be any changes to the land site. The Pirate Bay will keep operational just as constantly,” the placard said.
In add to Sunde, 29, from Finland, the others supercharged were Fredrik Neij, 29; Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 23; and Carl Lundstrom, 47.
Attorney Peter Danowsky, who corresponds some of the complainants through the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, articulated they plan to take damages of “respective million” Swedish kronor.
Police prehended servers and electronic computer equipment in a May 31, 2006, raid at 10 unlike locations in central Sweden that was acclaimed by the Motion Picture Association of America, that claims film studios have mislaid billions of one dollar bills due to buccaneering.
Roswall informated the grounds in the instance included witness testimonial, e-mails directed and standard by the defendants and invoices directed to advertisers. One e-mail advised The Pirate Bay had got a yearly gross of about USUSD 3 000 000 (2 000 000).