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The Pirate Bay: copyright rules only applies to others!

TorrentFreak | February 13, 2013
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A Finnish anti-piracy group has copied the design of The Pirate Bay website for their latest anti-piracy campaign. The Pirate Bay is outraged by this move and says it will sue the group for breaking their site policy, which clearly states that organizations are not permitted to steal the site design for nefarious purposes. “People must understand what is right and wrong,” The Pirate Bay says.

Finnish anti-piracy group CIAPC, known worldwide for tracking down a 9 year-old “pirate girl” and having her Winnie The Pooh laptop confiscated, launched a controversial campaign yesterday.

The group copied The Pirate Bay’s design for their campaign site, including the CSS stylesheet, and replaced the logo with one of a sinking ship.

Of course the site doesn’t host any torrents. Instead, all links point to a page which informs visitors that there are plenty of legal alternatives to The Pirate Bay.

The Pirate Bay, generally quite supportive of copy-pasting, is not happy with CIAPC’s apparent infringement and plans to take legal steps against the anti-piracy group.

“We are outraged by this behavior. People must understand what is right and wrong. Stealing material like this on the internet is a threat to economies worldwide,” a Pirate Bay spokesman told TorrentFreak.

“We feel that we must make a statement and therefore we will sue them for copyright infringement,” the spokesman adds.
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Steve
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Steve

Hey Mods - it's not allowed to post material from The Onion as if it were real!

*snicker*
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said by Smokey Bear:

“We feel that we must make a statement and therefore we will sue them for copyright infringement,” the spokesman adds.

...sic Anonymous on them?

[/end joke, in case you don't get it]

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redwolfe_98
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Stealing material like this on the internet is a threat to economies worldwide, a Pirate Bay spokesman told TorrentFreak

that seems twisted, for "pirate bay" to talk about how "stealing material" is a threat to economies worldwide.. if they really feel that way, they should help "CIAPC" sink pirate bay's ship..

on the other hand, maybe "CIAPC" was giving "pirate bay" a dose of their own medicine..
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While there is some humor here.

Considering how much piracy gets traced back to IPs owned by copyright holders themselves...