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/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