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The Pirate Bay is Totally Leet

Source: TheTorrentFreak
(the source of this information is ThetorrentFreak, but it’s not their original post)

The chief investigating officer in the Pirate Bay case who was revealed as recently working for Warner Bros, has been reported to the police. Yesterday the Pirate Bay crew filed “at least” three complaints, and further people have been reported for bribing the police.

ThePirateBay.org is under scrutiny by many large companies. These companies are all mad at TPB because they host torrent files of content that the companies could be selling. Since TPB is located in Sweden I think, none of the files that are hosted their really give US companies any jurisdiction.

The Police that will be investigating The Pirate Bay has worked for Warner Bros before, and it is said that he will return to work for Warner Bros after the case is done with.

Various media and anti-piracy agencies all want a large piece of the Pirate Bay crew and between them are demanding millions of dollars in compensation, a point that is contested by Brokep: “In fact, they owe us a shitload of money. All the time we’ve spent on being called criminals and hunted down by private investigators and getting our stuff stolen by them - it’s gonna be expensive for them.”

Brokep says their initial target is police officer and IT forensics expert Jim Keyzer, who they clearly see as corrupt:

“We reported the police officer yesterday. For a lot of different reasons, at least three criminal complaints were filed. But you know what? It’s illegal to bribe the police as well. So more people have been reported to the police.”

Brokep is clearly in defiant mood: “So who’s the fucking criminals really? Hey Hollywood assholes - Be afraid. Very afraid. The law is coming to serve justice.”

The Pirate Bay crew say that when the case is over, they will demand compensation for all the time and money they have invested in this “media circus”.

Tags: .org, bay, claims, file, Legal, pirate, the, thepiratebay, thepiratebay.org, torrent

Are Anime Streaming Sites Legal?

It’s been brought to my attention recently the growing controversy over sites that stream anime. I don’t mean sites like youtube, veoh, or etc… I mean sites like Otaku Theater which embed the videos on the site, so people can watch withing having to search for the videos. Many people don’t have any problems at all with these kinds of sites, but there are those who question the legality.

Many of these sites have disclaimers, stating that since the content is hosted on another web server, they aren’t at fault for showing it to other people. I immediately agreed with that theory because it seemed perfectly reasonable. I know that sites like youtube are responsible for finding user submitted copyright infringing material, and the general public isn’t responsible for knowing exactly what is wrong and right. Many kids browse the internet and have no idea that they are taking away from the profits of the original creators of the cartoons.

Plus this is the internet after all, many websites that do allow the viewing of anime are hosted in countries where there are no laws against it. So if the creators ask them to take down their show, the owner of the website can just tell them off.

I don’t have any problem with people grouping together anime they’ve found on other websites and showing other people. Since the sites that host the videos are responsible, and quite good at removing anime and other copyrighted material from their sites, streaming video site owners have plenty of work replacing broken links and non-working videos. So, I think that streaming sites are fine, video hosting websites should keep on removing copyrighted content, or

anime owners should somehow insert ads into their shows, and release them via the web in the first place!

This could probably work, and save them a bunch of money. Since people are always going to host download, and streaming websites… might as well make those have commercials. (this is just a suggestion though… not dictating what people should do. )

Tags: anime, cartoon, hosting, Legal, manga, Sites, streaming, video