Normally the defender rather than the attacker, The Pirate Bay has put the boot on the other foot and is now taking the initiative against its accusers: the Big Four Cartel and its numerous lackeys.After the recent email leaks from MediaDefender, P2Pnet says, The Pirate Bay now has
proof of the things [they have] been suspecting for a long time.
The Cartels, The Pirate Bay continues, are employing professional security breachers, saboteurs and DDOSers to destroy the current P2P filesharing infrastructure. They’re really on the ball, and local companies are being targetted first:
While browsing through the email we identified the companies that are also active in Sweden and we have tonight reported these incidents to the police. The charges are infrastructural sabotage, denial of service attacks, hacking and spamming, all of these on a commercial level.
How the courts will react to this will be interesting to see, but it’s possible that The Pirate Bay are not expecting any real legal win from this. It is much more of a message to ‘the other side’ that the P2P community isn’t going to stand for their bullying tactics any longer – especially not when such tactics manifest themselves through illegal, corporate-sponsored activities.
The reaction from the companies cited in the legal move, which include the Swedish arms of Twentieth Century Fox, EMI, Universal and Sony, will be interesting to see. If they’re not directly involved then it is unlikely that they will be unduly worried. What it will do, and this again may be the ultimate aim of the The Pirate Bay’s bold move, is to put a nasty taste in the mouth of anyone using MediaDefender’s services. The digital rights ‘protector’ will find the next few months very difficult indeed, and we predict that the sensible members of the Cartel will move onto better things sooner rather than later. Bon Voyage, MediaDefender.
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