Bittorrent site files charges against media companies

**HoreTore** · 09-23-2007, 20:30

I doubt they ever imagined this would happen...

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TPB files charges against media companies

Thanks to the email-leakage from MediaDefender-Defenders we now have proof of the things we'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 we identified the companies that are also active in Sweden and we 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

Stay tuned for updates.

EDIT: Oh, and do remember the forum rules... No posting of links to pirate sites, encourage piracy etc... Now can I have my cookie, mods?

**TB666** · 09-23-2007, 20:57

I'm not surprised that they are doing it really but I bet that they are surprised that they got busted.
But I doubt anything will happen, their lobby groups are too powerful.
Still kudos to TPB for fighting the good fight.

**Papewaio** · 09-23-2007, 23:00

It will be interesting. Considering even if the Bittorrent site was being used for criminal purposes by some members it does not allow the corporations to use criminal attacks on the sites. It would be the equivalent to a concert having stalls and some of them bootlegged variants, with the media companies sending in heavies to rough up all the stall owners... not allowed. IF the media companies have an issue they still have to go through legal means. Taking the law into their own hands should invoke heavy penalties from the state as it is a basic matter of sovereignty.

**Beirut** · 09-23-2007, 23:35

Fight the Machine!

I love it when big corporations get whacked.

**Watchman** · 09-24-2007, 00:13

While I must admit my take on the whole P2P thing has always been somewhat uncomfortably conflicted, I've never been a fan of vigilantism. Doubly so when practiced by fiscal entities motivated mainly by their concern of the almighty Bottom Line, and here quite likely also a fair bit of petty spite.

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 09-24-2007, 03:14

I'm a big fan of seeing corporations taken down a notch and very paranoid about corporations getting too much power, so yeah they should get smacked for this.