The next time you find yourself bored, looking for something interesting to read or do, I highly recommend going through the "legal threat" section of the piratebay.org website. I swear it is absolutely hilarious!!
For those you not familiar - the pirate bay is one of the largest infringe-ware websites in the world, allowing you to search through millions of torrent files and downloading copyright infringing material such as music, games, videos, etc (you download it from other peers, not directly from their website, and that's what may protect them legally). Without going into whether that's OK or NOT, I guess one interesting point is that the pirate bay consistently claim that they are not breaking any laws, since they're hosted in Sweden "land of vikings, reindeers, Aurora Borealis and cute blonde girls" (quote) oh, and also the land of "sane copyright laws".
I'm gonna quote some of their response as teasers, but you really must go there and read for yourself.
To DreamWorks lawyers: "As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States"
"It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are ....... morons, and that you should please go s**** yourself with ..." (cover your ears)
To EA: "Hello and thank you for contacting us. We have shut down the website in question. Oh wait, just kidding. We haven't, ..."
"Please don't sue us right now, our lawyer is passed out in an alley from too much moonshine, so please atleast wait until he's found and doesn't have a huge hangover..."
To WB in response to them asking them to remove all links in the search result here: http://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=billy+corgan: "Sorry, but I can't remove search.php - our users would get upset if TPB suddenly lacked a search function. "
Bookmark it and read when you have a minute. Entertainment guaranteed.
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