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Booty call: Music has-beens line up to sue The Pirate Bay

arstechnica.com — Justice or money grab? Bands are lining up to sue The Pirate Bay now that the Swedish government has indicted the site's owners, but their plans could backfire as the promises of sunken treasure give way to reality.

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  • luchid, on 02/18/2008, -3/+183WOW. Abba, the Village People, Prince, and "the WebSheriff". That's what I'd call a failboat!
  • Waskonator, on 02/18/2008, -0/+91Who is torrenting this *****?
    It's not worth it, please believe me.
  • offspring06, on 02/18/2008, -9/+74The Pirate Bay is a ***** search engine and do not host any copyrighted material. Who the ***** cares about ABBA and The Village People. Their music died before I was even born. I wouldn't listen to their ***** music even if they paid me to listen to it.
  • StatiK69, on 02/18/2008, -4/+41If Ted Nugent get's on the boat, then they're in trouble.
  • stillasleep00, on 02/18/2008, -1/+37I thought Prince was for new ways of spreading music. Didn't he get in trouble with his label for spreading his music for free a while back?
  • nicholai, on 02/18/2008, -1/+33I would suggest a boycott but nobody buys their ***** music anyways.
  • Kyrgizion, on 02/18/2008, -2/+28I would never download that kind of crap but I'm going to get all their albums and seed like mad just to spite the *****.
  • Pfkninenines, on 02/18/2008, -7/+32Wash ups, and lawyers of current musicians will all want a piece of this. Hopefully the Sweeds won't be able to do anything about TPB in the first place..After all, there is no law against downloading a .torrent, nor is there a law against indexing files from anywhere available on the Internet.

    Oh well, lets just hope the Swedish Government is smart enough to know they can't do anything, and realizes that the internet is NOT a bunch of 'pipes'.
    [/Ted Stephens crack]
  • euro22, on 12/17/2008, -1/+25http://i31.tinypic.com/zc29l.jpg
  • toconnor, on 02/18/2008, -0/+24I'm just glad Rick Astley isn't on the list!
  • gstep, on 02/18/2008, -5/+28I saw that man shoot a real bow at a cutout of Saddam on stage at one of his concerts. Not a guy to mess with.
  • JacksonYaya, on 02/18/2008, -1/+23Oh yeah. If we ever go to war against cardboard cutouts he will be the man. Unless he has to go hand to hand against the corrugated crusaders, in which case he will break down like the puss he is. One of my favorite guitar players, I sure wish he would stick to it.
  • gstep, on 02/18/2008, -2/+24Dugg for the title
  • inactive, on 02/18/2008, -2/+23And that's the problem. They see file sharing as a big huge thing and they see their record sales in the *****. They add 2 + 2 and get "ZOMG TORRENTZ" instead of the correct reason their record sales are down: Their sound sucks.
  • lcmatt, on 02/18/2008, -1/+21http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=abba+.torrent
    http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=prince+.torrent
    http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=the+village ...

    TPB is doing exactly what Google is doing above - indexing torrents. Is Google hosting copyrighted material? No Is TPB hosting copyrighted material? No
    When will they ever learn......
  • D3koy, on 02/18/2008, -0/+20GM should sue Prince for "Little Red Corvette"
  • Rhodamine, on 02/18/2008, -9/+29Mr BabyMan = #1 Again!
    Surprise Surprise

    Wasn't he bitching about how oppressed he was going to be a couple of months ago?
  • Ajajadude, on 02/18/2008, -2/+21I'd hardly go as far as calling Prince a "man"
  • ElBeh, on 02/18/2008, -3/+21***** the RIAA.

    /obligatory
  • Whatwedo, on 02/18/2008, -0/+14This article is a treasure trove of metaphors.
  • mrloco, on 02/18/2008, -4/+17It's fun to seed at Theeeeeeeee Pirate Bay

  • dajernts, on 02/18/2008, -1/+13wwhhhaaat?
  • diggit08, on 02/18/2008, -0/+12I think he did it in exchange for free advertising in the newspapers here in the UK.
  • dOOBiEx213, on 02/18/2008, -0/+12lulz nub, please /wrist
  • AsSubtleAsABrik, on 02/18/2008, -0/+10In related news The Village People are suing local towns for using their music in Fourth of July celebrations without paying them royalties.
  • sgoogle, on 02/18/2008, -1/+11people use it to search for free music/video/etc that otherwise they would not pay for

    Corrected for you
  • digghasnoethics, on 02/18/2008, -1/+11I think people are missing the point here. Prince and the Village People are undeniably has-beens and its not surprising they would lend their names to this fishing trip. However ABBA, who haven't signed up, are still major sellers, and more importantly, *Swedish*. Its not surprising someone is trying to sign them up since it would strengthen their case to have the biggest ever Swedish band suing a Swedish search engine.

    In short, ABBA count, the rest are hangers on.
  • k1dN1c, on 02/18/2008, -5/+14if P1rate B4y goes down 5 more sites will rush to fill their spot in the t0rrent world..
    when will MPAA/RIAA learn?

    insanity: repeating the same task and expecting different results
  • rnreekez, on 02/18/2008, -1/+10Yeah, if things get sticky and he's called up to testify he may ***** himself for two weeks or run to canada. That would make a miserable boat trip.
  • Lutremi, on 02/18/2008, -2/+11Who the hell goes on TPB to download Prince or ABBA?
  • dOOBiEx213, on 02/18/2008, -1/+9You fail. To the WOODEN PLANK!!!!!!
  • krenzo, on 02/18/2008, -0/+8Web Sheriff is a joke. I had a run in with them about a year ago. They were upset someone on my message board linked to a YouTube video with YMCA as the background music. After ignoring them, they eventually stopped e-mailing me.
  • inactive, on 02/18/2008, -0/+8Can you digg down one half and digg up the other half of his reply?
  • ronaldinho, on 02/18/2008, -1/+9IT'S A SEARCH ENGINE! NOT THE TORRENT ITSELF! And no one can stop the torrents. NO ONE.
  • NuFadZoo, on 02/18/2008, -2/+9Damn! I loved Prince. (Single Tear)
  • xdevit, on 02/18/2008, -0/+6Shocked K-Fed (Kevin Federline) isn't named as one of the "artist" lining up.
  • Llanowar, on 02/18/2008, -2/+8You just lost an internet :(
  • j3one, on 02/18/2008, -0/+6wwhhhaaat?
  • altcountryman, on 02/18/2008, -0/+6"corrugated crusaders" is, by far, the most awesomest thing I've ever seen on Digg!
  • papastout, on 02/18/2008, -6/+12That was a good one - Failboat - like The Failing Ship Titanic
  • makkaveli19, on 02/18/2008, -0/+6inbred, yes sadly he does. but so do lesbians
  • bugsy187, on 02/18/2008, -0/+5I can.
  • harusp3x, on 02/18/2008, -1/+6And here I am shooting arrows, like a sucker.
  • ScottoGato, on 02/18/2008, -1/+6“People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.” -Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets
  • makkaveli19, on 02/18/2008, -0/+5not across.
  • KingBabi, on 02/18/2008, -0/+5Hell, even if a law forbidding downloads/hosting of .torrent files is passed, then they can stop hosting the .torrent files and people can just copy the URL into their client.
  • sgoogle, on 02/18/2008, -0/+5Sorry, missed the boat on this one, look up
  • thedragon4453, on 02/19/2008, -0/+4*clap*
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