May 12, 2008

MPAA aims at taking The Pirate Bay down with $15.4m lawsuit

piratebaylog.gif BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay has been slapped with a $15.4m lawsuit bill from the MPAA for copyright infringement. ITProPortal.com reports.

"Surprisingly. the damages are being seeked for only four movies ("Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", "Syriana", "The Pink Panther" and "Walk the Line") as well as a few episodes of hit series "Prison Break".

... An MPAA Lawyer commented on the suggestion that each download is not equivalent to a lost sale by saying "We don’t know that, but the copyright law doesn’t care about that. It says that if you have downloaded something illegally, you must pay regardless, if you would’ve bought it or not.”

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