The Pirate Bay Reports Anti-Piracy Outfit to the Police

It's hard to know what they think. Maybe they expect to lose, which would reinforce the right for parody websites.

That's the joke. They know they'll at least get a good laugh from using the same rhetorics as the anti-piracy groups use, even if they win or not.

Its a joke. One they are keen to take to the courts. It was clear with their original statement. Using their words against them. /popcorn

Reminds me of an idea in Schopenhauer's "The Art of Being Right".

He says that, when you argue against someone who is part of a cult, you can use his cult's beliefs in the argumentation against him (because he's supposed to admit them as truths). However, he cannot use his cult's beliefs in arguing against you.

So, TPB can reprimand a copyright organization for violating copyright, but it doesn't work the other way around. It's not hypocrisy.

It says that if they win, they'll donate the winnings to that 9 year old girl who had her Winnie the Pooh laptop taken and if they lose, it will reinforce the right to make parody websites, which is apparently in question under Finnish law due to issues over the author's moral rights.

This, too, a case where their moral rights come into play, because their design is being used to promote something they are strongly opposed to.

Anything that exposes the rampant hypocrisy of big media, I'm for in principle.

Also, reading through the first several child comments, I'm struck by the thought: A legitimate lawsuit (edit: or criminal prosecution, as the case may be) as parody. If that's what they're after (at least, in part), that's brilliant.

(Edit: That would be separate from the defense of parody directly described. As I read it, if this organization can copy TPB code for use in a site opposing TPB and contrary to TPB's moral sentiment, then examples of parody that do the same or similar things in other contexts should also be permissible/legal. And this circumstance would also potentially bolster current and/or proposed law that codifies this.)

Part of the longer term goal in all this is education. As people -- the public -- become more aware of and informed about how they are being screwed, pressure will build to correct, or at least improve, the underlying circumstances.

The ACTA protests, for example, did not happen in isolation.

Finland, same country where the police raided a 9-year old's home at 8am to confiscate her Winnie the Pooh laptop.

One wonders if Finland even has anything like a prosecution service authority that decides whether the cost and public interest of justice in individual cases outweighs the benefits...

Isn't it out job to promote the story?

I've just emailed it to about 200 people (ironically two of them work for the business software alliance).

While mitigating in a law suit, I would not rely on a image as an copyright license. It doesn't actually say what content is covered by it (every link? css? javascript? images? ...). Wikipedia describe it as something like CC0, but is unsourcesed and thus nothing I would rely on for legal advice.

I just had a quick glance, the Kopimi image only seems to be in the footer of the homepage.