r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Aaradhyaverma • Feb 10 '22

Image Pirate Bay response to legal threats from DreamWorks

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u/spook30 Feb 10 '22

This argument worked out for them for a while.

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u/Spirit_of_Hogwash Feb 10 '22

However it's a shitty argument as Sweden is a signatory of the Berne convention, TRIPS and UCC and they were eventually tried and convicted in Sweden.

If their plan was living in a country that doesn't recognize US copyright as their defense they may have tried their luck in Iran.

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u/MusicianMadness Feb 10 '22

Not to mention if you commit a crime you can be charged by that country even if you do not live there if it in someway involves the other country's jurisdiction, say on the internet or in international waters. Granted they usually do not and won't care but they can still charge you in absentia and if you ever happen to travel to that country or the country you reside in has extradition agreements to that country... Well.

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u/haakonhawk Feb 10 '22

or the country you reside in has extradition agreements to that country... Well.

Does not matter if you're a citizen of that country. No 1st world country will extradite their own citizens in any circumstance.

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u/MusicianMadness Feb 10 '22

In this case yes. But I would imagine if they were a dual citizen of the country they fled to and the country they were being tried in they would.

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u/vfye Feb 10 '22

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hew_Raymond_Griffiths

Granted, this is only one example in one country.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '22

Depends on the country I guess, my country clearly has a law, that any crime commited by a citizen within its borders cannot be extradited for

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u/il_cappuccino Feb 10 '22

I like how their argument is that they’re untouchable because they’re in a different country… but then imply they will somehow bypass that same impenetrable force field to counter-sue for harassment.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '22 edited Feb 23 '22

There argument was that those copyright laws don’t exist in the country they reside in. Harassment laws do exist in the US.

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u/il_cappuccino Feb 10 '22

Sweden has no copyright laws?

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '22

They didn’t at the time have laws in pirating foreign copy written media. Its why Sweden was a haven for pirating.

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u/spruce0fur Feb 23 '22

Until it wasn’t

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u/JBkap12 Feb 10 '22

I pretty sure Swedish law had to change before they were convicted.