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- Chewie67, on 10/12/2007, -10/+73Can't we all just get along?
BTW, my opinion of Sweden has jumped immensely since seeing this on Yahoo:
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/060615/ids_photos_sp/r3852284480.jpg - cragga, on 10/12/2007, -5/+52stolen from some swedish fellow's comment on the article itself;
"Wow. Now they really have been ***** in the blue cabinet. As we say here in sweden. :)"
i think that just blew my funny fuse. :P - bairy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+45Stalking, MPAAs new(?) modus operandi
For those of you who haven't followed the Swedish news, a quite funny (or tragic) thing has surfaced: Apparently, on several different occasions, MPAAs Swedish lawyers hired a private eye to stalk me! This must've been very entertaining for the poor Tex Murphy clone doing the actual groundwork, as my daily activites can basically be summed up as "eat, sleep, work" (often on very odd hours).
It kind of flattens me to get this level of attention from my dear pals at MPAA, and it really adds nicely to the image of them being raving lunatics (the Swedish Antipiratbyrån are calm, rational and fair in comparision!).
Because they started it, I'm going to do some stalking of my own! Hah!
As a starter, I'll just note that MPAAs Swedish lawyer has forgotten to pay her bills on time on several occasions, mostly parking tickets (despite earning over $100k/year)...
Posted Today 10:34 by anakata - SmurfButcherBob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39Ah... I wonder if the stalker will fall for the old, "banana in the tailpipe" trick...
- mkaufman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38@Aidenag:
I think you're confusing Sweden with Switzerland:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland
/swiss
//has his rifle at home
///always loaded and ready to shoot of course - marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24"even if what he is doing isn't illegal in Sweden, they will probably find a way to make it illegal - and he could end up spending a long time in jail."
No, no, no. This is _not_ how thing are done in Sweden. It it ever happens, the government will be overthrown and soon everything's back to normal again. - Quactaur, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25The piratebryan group has been around for ages, it wasn't just formed over the raid.
In fact, the new us pirate party was the one formed over the raid. Think before we try implicating America's faults into everything :) - Orbatos, on 10/12/2007, -6/+29Chewie67's picture is NSFW how exactly?
- Aidenag, on 10/12/2007, -10/+28dont all adult swedes have govt issue assualt rifles that fire full auto?
Problem solved :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20This is sick.
- rbabiak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Well MPAA and RIAA are just worried, and justafiably so.
There whole bussiness is obsolete, artist are starting to wake up and realise that they can record there own music in a small studio, put up a web site and link there torent into free music indexes, use pay pall and sell directly to consumers.
In 10 years I don't think there will be a recording company for music anymore, the artists will produce and distribute there own products and as all middle men in histroy RIAA will be squezed out, and the supply chain shortened.
They don't really provide any usefull services any more, I don't want a plastic disk clutering up my house, just downloaded it directly to my Ipod and set up kiosks in the malls where I can browes music, and purchase a digital download of the songs I want.
All the screaming over pirates is just a distraction to keep people from realising that the recording industry isn't needed any more (well not the big players) I still see a need for the small studios where you could sit down with a recording specilist to record your tracks. But beyond that and a high quality digital master and a home computer and the internet can do the rest.
I feel the whole fur over piracy isn't about music being transfered for free, but one part distraction, and one part political capital.
On one hand they use it to distract the public from the fact that they are not needed any more, and that there bussiness will be defunct soon. If everone thinks that they are loseing money because of pirates then they can continue to lose money while they try to subvert the system, in short a delaying action.
On the other hand they can go to govemrments and lobby for laws that might just let them stay in bussines by preventing new tech for destroying there bussiness. They can point to the law suites and say "look we are trying to steming the tied but we are failing, we need stronger laws!" In short by spinning piracy as a huge loss of money they can try to lock down the controll of the content and scream for bigger clubs to keep the artists and consumer in line. When you think of it they view artists and consumers as numbers, we have X artists signed, they will produce Y songs that we can sell to W customers.
I think most of the prolem can be fixed easly by makeing copyrights non transferable. Ie if an artist records a song then they own the copyright, they can not sell, or give that copyright away. They can lisence it to a 3rd party but the copyright always remains with the original author. - plaunie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18"...if he keeps it up and keeps pissing off enough powerful people, even if what he is doing isn't illegal in Sweden, they will probably find a way to make it illegal..."
Thinking like that is exactly how people in power can change the laws to fit their whims. - Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18*cue Beverly Hills Cop theme* :-)
- sremick, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19NSFW if you work at a church, maybe.
It's just 2 girls giving each other a platonic kiss on the lips. A "peck" maybe, not even open-mouth (no tongues and such). It's how most people kiss their mom, geesh.
As it is, I work at a magazine distributor. This has nothing on what's in the magazines I see daily... heh. - raid517, on 10/12/2007, -9/+22Although I admire him, he is walking on dangerous ground. I worry for him that he seems to deliberately want to keep upping the stakes. It is almost like he wants to be noticed.
At the end of the day if he keeps it up and keeps pissing off enough powerful people, even if what he is doing isn't illegal in Sweden, they will probably find a way to make it illegal - and he could end up spending a long time in jail.
The one rule in this game was always I thought that you should try to keep a low profile - but he is going at it from a whole other direction completely.
I worry for him I guess that he might be enjoying his celebrity a little too much. - hellmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14actually, we do.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,71180-0.html?tw=wn_index_6 - clevershark, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Clearly we're dealing with a "challenged" individual here.
- blueigloo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11......
Two words: Anger Management - noGoodNamesLeft, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Not necessarily; if they pressure him enough to quit, it's probable that the publicity will encourage two people will think "***** you" and take his place. You harass them, there's even more publicity, and more people join them.
Even if nine out of ten people would be discouraged by the prospect of being tailed, one out of ten taking it as a challenge and saying "bring it on" will encourage a snowballing effect. How many people can they afford to follow, financially and in terms of the negative publicity it would generate?
They may be able to sink THE original Pirate Bay organisation, but they'd still lose out ultimately. - Moocat, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14Would someone be kind enought to copy paste? The piratebay is not accessible for a number of very good reasons from my area :)
- ebob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Although your grammar and spelling are atrocious, I digg your comment. Continue preaching to the choir.
- DoctorWhohaa, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13I worry that he is not enjoying his celebrity enough. He should be standing on this private eye's car hood, screaming "King Kong ain't got nothin' on me!"
Nice of him to call him a Tex Murphy clone though. - electromagnetic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7That's breaking and entering, which is criminal and if the MPAA hired him they would have serious, SERIOUS, charges to face and discredit their organisation (more than they've already done to themselves). So lets hope they are and get caught, it'll be funny-er.
- Chewie67, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8""To ***** in the blue cabinet" is actually a fairly common expression in Sweden. My dad uses it a lot! :)"
What exactly does it mean?
What would an equivelant expression be in the US? To screw the pooch? - bairy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Since the site isn't illegal, and since anakata has backchatted, made fun of and generally said what ever he likes to big organisations without fear, I doubt a couple of guys in a van is going to particularly bother him.
I wonder if he could get an enjunction(sp?) saying they couldn't go within x hundred yards. - daller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7In sweden that cind of information is public we have something called UC that u can check ppl's credit ratings
- masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9These guys are my heroes. (The Piratbyran folk, not the MPAA folk.)
- IHaveIssues, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8We need pics of the "undercover" private eyes!
- Snakedal337, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9You are sooooooo wrong.
Apple is god tyvm.
TPB is only jesus.
/sarcasm - kevyn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7thats amusing. i wonder how they got the info on the lawyer not paying fines?
- rderveloy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"A Pirate Party, that's half pathetic half ridiculous and a quarter sad"
I'm confused.
Is that like half man and half bear-pig, or half pig and half man-bear?
Grooooowt!!!!! - Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8You're wrong; this story was covered on Swedish TV before I read this.
I think that's how anakata caught the news.
Sorry, I belive you overestimate MPAA's global reach, tactics, and successes. They can try (and even succeed) in shutting things down, but just like with chopping heads off hydras, it won't help much. - Sirocco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I'm guessing you don't know that most PIs are ex-cops.
- skidzilla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Wow, The MPAA must really be getting desperate. It's quite pathetic really.
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Sweden != Switzerland.
- williamdyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Sounds like something to try with the MPAA execs and lawyers. Enough keyed cars, burgers spat on, kids shunned at school, wife given the finger, home egged, etc., and they will turn to more honest work, like selling vacuum cleaners or something.
- Moocat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I'd like to see nothing more than a band of folks dressed as pirates wielding sledgehammers physically level the network operation center of MPAA and RIAA both. On video. To the tune of "A pirate's life for me" or whatever it's called :)
- barrabus, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11"half pathetic half ridiculous and a quarter sad"
But that's unpossible! - rbabiak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Well thanks for the digg,
English is my first language, but because of other problems my spelling is not good, grammer either. Basicly I spell phoneticly and can't tell when a word isn't spelt right or not. I have large vocabularly but tend to not use it because the bigger the word the harder to spell it is.
My spelling is a source of great enbarisment to me,but there is not much I can do about it, just the way my brain is wired. Be thankfull that you have good spelling, it is something I dream of. - mookieXL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Let's setup tracker in Switzerland and try whole procedure again.
- moshisushi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"To ***** in the blue cabinet" is actually a fairly common expression in Sweden. My dad uses it a lot! :)
- moshisushi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"digg does have spell check."
Give him a break, bastard... - Ironlink, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5For those who understand Swedish, the clip from TV can be found here: http://qstream-wm.qbrick.com/00928/nyheter/2006/060621/pirate0800.wmv
According to TV news, the MPAA hired investigators from Gothia Protection Group, whose swedish website can be found at http://www.gothiaprotection.se . The english version of the same is available at http://www.private-investigations-detectives-investigators-sweden.com (for real, I can't imagine why they chose that domain). The links seem to be b0rked while editing, if they don't work, copy-paste. - moshisushi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7No it basically means that u're ***** or ***** something up.
Example:
- Did you hear that the mayor got ***** on crack and gave head to a homeless man on the town square the other day?
- Oh my, he's really ***** in the blue cabinet now! - Bhima, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'd plan on it... it a "Home Alone" sort of way.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Boy I think of all the fun I could have if they did this to me.
When I was 12 I would throw snow balls at cop cars just to get them to case me, one time I was four hours late coming home from school, it took me that long to get away from the cops. - Ryuuzaki, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4They do this to scare him into keeping a low profile... if he went and did that, MPAA would be victor. For the movement against intellectual slavery to grow into something big, trials like this and worse will have to be passed.
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3the mpaa going after tpb is like america going after terrorists, by taking out one you are giving more incentive for more to take his place
- jakethecake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The Swedish Pirate Party was formed 6 months prior to the raid.
- raid517, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I would have said it was the other way round, where the more noise you create, the more attention you acquire, the more likely it is that those in positions of power and influence will want to stop you.
When it comes to piracy, there is a lot to be said for invisibility - but painting a big fat and hugely visible target on yourself and running around screaming and daring everyone to come after you is almost always bound to end in tears. -
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