A company dedicated to sending out
deficient take down notices has been doing the rounds of old and out of circulation artists to lend their names to an effort to sue the pirate bay folks for damages.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080217-booty-call-music-has-beens-line-up-to-sue-the-pirate-bay.htmlPrince and The Village People are committed to pursuing a legal decision against The Pirate Bay for substantial sums of money. In a statement, John Giacobbi of Web Sheriff, who would work with these artists in securing local representation in Sweden, said, "We're looking at damages of millions of dollars, and we will file in both US and Swedish courts." Giacobbi is also reaching out to ABBA, Van Morrison, and others to join the quest for "damages."
The quest for damages may be misguided, however, as The Pirate Bay likely does not have millions to pay out. Peter Sunde of The Pirate Bay told Ars that prosecutors' claims that the site earns more than US$3 million year are false. Sunde suggested that the site operates at a loss owing to the substantial cost of bandwidth, hardware, and powering servers. If you ask us, ads for human pheremones (the only kind we ever see on the 'Bay these days) can't be bringing in that much money (can they??). It's hard to imagine a Swedish court serving up millions in damages when the Swedish prosecutor leading the government case against The Pirate Bay is only seeking approximately $180,000 in damages, according to the BBC.
This web sheriff guy is a big joke in the online community, lets see who he is going to resurrect next to allege damages, when the public clearly have no further stomach for certain artists out of date offerings
Y,M,C,A, sing along folks..lol
