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Ge64 · 23/09/2007 07:46 AM

This is a few days old, but its great (and quite funny imho):

Quote:Thanks to the email-leakage from MediaDefender-Defenders wee now have proof of the things wee've been suspecting for a long time; the big record and movie labels are paying professional hackers, saboteurs and ddosers to destroy our trackers.

While browsing through the email wee identified the companies that are also active in Sweden and wee have tonight reported these incidents to the police. The charges are infrastructural sabotage, denial of service attacks, hacking and spamming, all of these on a commercial level.

The companies that are being reported are the following:

    * Twentieth Century Fox, Sweden AB
    * Emi Music Sweden AB
    * Universal Music Group Sweden AB
    * Universal Pictures Nordic AB
    * Paramount Home Entertainment (Sweden) AB
    * Atari Nordic AB
    * Activision Nordic Filial Till Activision (Uk) Ltd
    * Ubisoft Sweden AB
    * Sony Bmg Music Entertainment (Sweden) AB
    * Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Nordic AB

- Source: [The Pirate Bay Blog]

UncertainGod · 23/09/2007 07:52 AM

The problem with this is would the information they are basing this suit on be admissible as it came from a private server, or could you class it as being in the public domain now that everyone and there pet frog has had a look at it?

Mr. Shizzy · 23/09/2007 07:52 AM

HAHA !

I love it :P

Ge64 · 23/09/2007 07:56 AM

Well anyway if they now know that they are being attacked by pro hackers hired by these companies then they can find more evidence and sue random music/movie corps, kinda like the mpaa does :P

UncertainGod · 23/09/2007 07:59 AM

There not being attacked by 'pro hackers' though, the trackers are being monitored and info about which people are grabbing which files is being recorded, the pirate bay trackers are public so is it even illegal for them to monitor the data being passed through them?

|-Anubis-| · 23/09/2007 09:45 AM

It'll never stand up in court -_-

Emails will probably be thrown out due to the way they were obtained.

But symbolically its pretty cool.

UncertainGod · 23/09/2007 09:56 AM

Quote:But symbolically its pretty cool.

Very true, they most likely have filed just to garner some attention to the hypocrisy of the studios methods to catch the 'evil pirates'.

u_c_taker · 23/09/2007 10:28 AM

well this is cool if they happen to win in court then i guess the big companies will be in a lot of trouble for a change

YoYoBallz · 23/09/2007 10:45 AM

lol go PB

ZiNgA BuRgA · 23/09/2007 07:59 PM

UncertainGod Wrote:There not being attacked by 'pro hackers' though, the trackers are being monitored and info about which people are grabbing which files is being recorded, the pirate bay trackers are public so is it even illegal for them to monitor the data being passed through them?

That would be true, but I think the idea behind this is that the companies have done more than that - ie DDoS attacks.
I believe charges can be made for that...

As for the source of the evidence... IDK. Emails and that kind of material have been used before... >_>

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