Pirate Bay hit with legal action
Found on BBC News on Wednesday, 30 January 2008
The Pirate Bay's servers do not store copyrighted material but offer links to the download location of films, TV programmes, albums and software.
Prosecutor Hakan Roswall said the website was commercially exploiting copyright-protected work because it was financed through advertising revenues.
In an interview with the BBC's technology programme Click last year Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde said: "I think it's okay to copy. They get their money from so many places that the sales is just one small part."
John Kennedy, chairman and chief executive of global music body, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industries, said: "The operators of The Pirate Bay have always been interested in making money, not music."
Now Kennedy made me laugh there. I didn't realize until now that the IFPI was not interested in making money, but to provide music. They should be happy about TPB: they provide music, TPB delivers it.