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Econsultancy blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Peter Sunde is best known as one of the founders of The Pirate Bay (TPB), the now-deceased BitTorrent index. In April of this year, Sunde and his fellow TBP operators were found guilty of copyright infringement and were each ordered to pay close to €2.75m in damages. Having apparently decided that piracy doesn't pay, Sunde now has a new business venture: he wants your credit card number. His new...
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
» LinkedIn’s CEO says an IPO is not in the company’s near-term plans. [ Reuters ] » The Toronto Star will shed 20 percent of its newsroom staff. [ E&P ] » Monster.com’s impressions have doubled from this time last year (it now reaches 43 percent of the U.S. audience). [ ClickZ ] » Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) is launching an e-book service in Japan. [ TBI ] »...
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CrunchGear (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay , is now part of spiffy Web site Kvittar—“does not matter” in Swedish, according to the Google. It's a site that purports to do away with paper receipts. You need to sign up with a credit card.
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P2P Blog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
For years, the Pirate Bay was the place to go to if you wanted to share movies, music or other digital goods. Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde, who resigned from his job as the site's spokesperson earlier this year, now has his eyes set on a different kind of loot: Sunde is one of the founders of the Swedish start-up Kvittar that promises to keep track of all of your purchases and offer a kind of...
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Threat Level (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The Swedish online retailer that had trademarked a near replica of The Pirate Bay’s iconic logo has agreed to withdraw registration of what has become an enduring symbol of online piracy, Swedish media reported Wednesday. The move by Sandryds Handel came two days after Peter Sunde, one of The Pirate Bay co-founders, complained to Sweden’s Patent [...]
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VatorNews (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
In wake of Pirate Bay prosecution, file-sharing sites continue to thrive In April, to the dismay of file-sharers the world over, a Swedish district court charged the founders of the Pirate Bay--Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm-- and Carl Lundström, a Swedish businessman closely affiliated with the site, with promoting copyright infringement. Though the guilty verdict may have at...
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p2pnet (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- With Global Gaming Factory boss Hans Pandeya reportedly on one end of another attempt to buy The Pirate Bay, and ex-TPB spokesman Peter Sunde (centre) supposedly on the other, his two former colleagues are having problems. The Stockholm district courtsays it’ll fine Gottfried Svartholm Warg (right) and Fredrik Neij [...]
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Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
On October 22, an Amsterdam court ruled that, within three months, The Pirate Bay has to remove a list of torrents linking to copyrighted works (I thought the Dutch were supposed to be liberal'). According to TorrentFreak, “The list is to be provided by BREIN,” who is the “joint anti-piracy program of authors, artists and producers of music, film and interactive software” in...
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My uni life (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
The Pirate Bay has been on the BBC technology news since February. Having been established as one of the worlds most 'high-profile' file-sharing sites The Pirate Bay now faces yet another new order to remove links to copyright material. However this is proving harder then it sounds as the founders of The Pirate Bay sold the website back in 2006, meaning they have no control over what now goes on on...
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IPKat—IP news and fun for everyone (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Some IP news that caught this kat's eye this week include.... We learned from the BBC that The Pirate Bay , now officially owned by a Seychelles-based company called Riversella Ltd, was yet again involved in court proceedings. This time a Dutch court ordered The Pirate Bay's founders to remove all links to the material of a group of Dutch music and film makers. The case was brought by Stichting Brein...
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TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Initially slated to begin next month, the appeal of the Pirate Bay Four (Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom) has been delayed significantly due to concerns regarding the objectivity of the judges assigned. Two of the judges are being accused of bias due to their ties with copyright organizations and until those claims are handled by the Supreme Court, the appeal cannot...
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Ollie Tristram (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Taken from Wikipedia: The Pirate Bay is a Swedish website that indexes and tracks BitTorrent files. It bills itself as "the world's largest BitTorrent tracker" and is ranked as the 104th most popular website by Alexa Internet. The website is funded primarily with advertisements shown next to torrent listings. Initially established in November 2003 by the Swedish anti-copyright organization...
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The Technology Blog (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Dutch copyright holders this week filed documents in court alleging that The Pirate Bay's mysterious owner, Reservella, is nothing more than a front for The Pirate Bay administrators, who have been in legal trouble for years. Pirate Bay spokesperson Peter Sunde calls the document a forgery. Source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/who-owns-the-pirate-bay-part-ii.ars
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Web News Site (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
You may remember, back in July, that a Dutch court made an odd ruling against The Pirate Bay at the behest of BREIN, the local anti-piracy group. Now, there was a lot of things odd about the case. BREIN has always been quite aggressive in demanding that sites be blocked or that ISPs be forced to block sites, but this case went really far. BREIN was able to bring the case without even letting any of...
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