Re: Electronic Arts Trademark and Copyright Infringement Notice

[Guest001]

Originally Posted by stompem

September 14, 2004

SENT VIA E-MAIL

Fredrik Neij
PRQ
Box 1206
Stockholm, Sweden 11479


Re: Electronic Arts Trademark and Copyright
Infringement Notice


Dear Mr. Neij:

It has been brought to the attention of Electronic Arts Inc. ("EA") that
the website http://www.piratebay.org with the IP addresses of
217.75.120.115, 217.75.120.116, 217.75.120.118 is conducting unauthorized
activities with respect to EA's copyrighted software, The Sims 2. The
aforementioned website is offering and distributing bittorrent seeds for
an unauthorized downloadable version of this EA game.

The infringing material may be found at:

http://www.piratebay.org/download.ph...ms%202.torrent

http://www.piratebay.org/download.ph...ne-CLONEGAME_F
ull.Release_%28exclusive_for_trackerwww.prq.to%29. torrent


This unauthorized activity with respect to the distribution of EA's
software products constitutes infringement of EA's intellectual property
rights. EA enforces its intellectual property rights very aggressively by
using every legal option available.

As you are listed as the registrant for this website, EA demands that you
immediately and permanently disable access to the aforementioned
bittorrent seeds for The Sims 2 and any in the future.

Thank you for your cooperation. If you have any questions concerning
this matter, please contact us via e-mail at:
.


Regards,

EA Law - IP Enforcement

Electronic Arts Inc.

[Guest001]

Originally Posted by stompem

Re: Electronic Arts Trademark and Copyright Infringement Notice

Hello and thank you for contacting us. We have shut down the website in
question.

Oh wait, just kidding. We haven't, since the site in question is fully
legal. Unlike certain other countries, such as the one you're in, we have
sane copyright laws here. But we also have polar bears roaming the
streets and attacking people :-(.
Please don't sue us right now, our lawyer is passed out in an alley from
too much moonshine, so please atleast wait until he's found and doesn't
have a huge hangover...
You're free to demand anything you want. So are we. We demand that you
cease and desist sending letters like this, since they're frivolous and
meaningless. Where should I send the bill for the consumed diskspace and
bandwidth?
Thank you for your entertainment. As with all other threats, we will
publish this one on http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal/

//anakata

[Guest001]

To: abuse_thepiratebay.org
From: Andrew Beaudoin
Subject: ABUSE - Copyright Infringement; Trademark Abuse
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:33:12 -0400

PRQ (DBA: TFR, THEPIRATEBAY)
Box 1206
Stockholm, 11479
Sweden

Voice - +46-707-323-819
Fax - +46-707-323-819

To whom it may concern:

I am writing to you as the legal representative of Rabbit Valley
Comics. Rabbit Valley owns the copyright of all the published works
under the Another Rabco Disaster trademark. I hereby notify you that
you are hosting material (published via a bittorrent tracker) which
infringes on our copyrights.

The address of the website is
http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3357473

Neither use nor distribution of this material has been authorized by
Rabbit Valley. Hence I have to conclude that this publication
constitutes an infringement of the copyrights of Rabbit Valley.

Under the European E-Commerce directives (Directive 2000/31/EC,
2004/48/EC, (EC) No 1383/2003) you, as a hosting provider, are liable
for unlawful content. If you don't act immediately after you have been
notified of this fact. I trust you will take all necessary measures
upon receipt of this notification to end this and all future
infringements of our intellectual property rights.

Thank you for your courtesy and anticipated co-operation.

Andrew Rabbitt
Vice President
Rabbit Valley

[Guest001]

From anakata
Subject: Re: Copyright Infringement; Trademark Abuse
To: Andrew Beaudoin <andrew@vicam.com>

Dear Mr Rabbitt, (Why the extra T? Afraid of furry-jokes when paying
with your credit card? Or does the rabbit suit give you away?)

Even though we deeply respect and acknowledge your "intellectual"
property, we fail to see how an interpretation of the said directives
makes them applicable in this case.
NONE of the copyrighted data in question is published or ever stored on
our servers. Nor is any of the copyrighted data relayed through our
servers. The tracker merely provides .torrent files.
As to this day this activity is not prohibited by Swedish law and it's
our assessment that not even a wide interpretation of the E-commerce
directives makes them applicable to torrent trackers. Out activities
will therefore continue until this fact changes or Hell freezes over.

We suggest that you motion for a change of Swedish and/or for the
European Supreme Court to clarify the interpretation of the directive,
which should take no more than 3-7 years. Patience is a virtue!

In the meantime: Enjoy our tracker! If you browse under "porn" I'm sure
that you'll find something that tickles just that "special" spot.
Hope to see you at the annually furry-convention in Las Vegas! Our whole
staff will be going as the cast from the movie "Homeward Bound: The
Incredible Journey"

Sincerely

/Judas_I
Legal representative of The Pirate Bay

[Guest001]

Response to : SEGA Europe Limited

Dear Sir(s), Madam(s), and/or Slimemold(s),

I have the distinct pleasure of informing you that no Swedish trademark
and/or coypyright law is being violated, regardless of how the situation
may or may not be under UK law. I would advise you to read up on Swedish
trademark law, more specifically Varumarkeslag (1960:644), as this might
save you a great deal of future humiliation.I would also advise you to
a) not write the subject all in UPPERCASE, as it makes spam filters go
nuts
b) not attach meaningless data from trademark registrys in PDF format
and
c) stop lying.
Then I guess you'll have to send us another oh-so-scary-sounding e-mail
about ht://static.thepiratebay.org/sega_mail.txt and
ht://static.thepiratebay.org/sega_response.txt :-/.

[Guest001]

From: law@iprights.com
To: anakata
Subject: Re: URGENT - FOOTBALL MANAGER TRADE MARK INFRINGEMENT

Dear Sirs

Thank you for your response. We will take our client's instructions.


Yours faithfully

Willoughby & Partners

[Guest001]

Response:
Dear Prokaryote(s),

Please sue me in Japan instead. I've always wanted to visit Tokyo.
Also, I'm running out of toilet paper, so please send lots of legal documents
to our ISP - preferably printed on soft paper.
No, but seriously. That's simply not how international law enforcement
works. Using the same logic, a country where web sites are forbidden could
press charges against you for having one.

[Guest001]

Web Sheriff
Protecting Your Rights on the Internet
Tel 44-(0)208-323 13 / Fax 44-(0)208-323 80
websheriff@websheriff.com ww.websheriff.com

Dear Frederik,

We would refer you to our notification of yesterday's date regarding the
above, the contents of which are self-explanatory (hereinafter referred to as
the "Notification"), to which we have yet to receive the courtesy of a response.

Notwithstanding the fact that you contend that torrent hosting is legal in
Sweden (which we would dispute), you also seem to fail to recognise that your
web-site is accessible all over the world and that, as such, your actions and,
furthermore, your refusal to act, opens you and your company up to the
possibility of law suits in - inter alia - the United States and the United Kingdom.
Such law suits could result in your being refused entry to both the US and
the UK Accordingly we would strongly recommend that you immediately comply with
the Notification, failing which we shall be obliged to advise our clients'
attorneys to take against your company (and your company officers) without
further notice. We would also warn you that, if such steps do prove to be necessary,
our clients' attorneys would also (a) notify the Swedish tax authorities of
your commercial activities, (b) notify the Swedish government of your illegal
activities, (c) notify the Swedish record industry association of your pirate
activities and (d) notify the IFPI of your piracy activities.

[Guest001]

Response:

It's spelled "Fredrik".
We would like to refer you to our Legal Threats section, on which we,
while having much fun, ridicule people like you.
Thank you for your contribution.
...and I would like to refer you to the relevant court cases.
Unfortunately, our legal team partied quite heavily last night, so the
only reference I can provide you with is H

[dave61]

Stomp,

Actually what the lawyers do is threaten the Pirate Bay. Since The Pirate bay is located in Sweden(?) then they are virtually untouchable.

So what the lawyers do is go after the ip addresses and ISPs of the users on The Pirate Bay. They can and will prosecute each and every users that download content from the Pirate bay ( or any other pirate/torrent website). I know this as a fact that ISPs have a legal right and responsibility to release the ip addresses of their clients (users) to those lawyers.

My nephew was caught a few weeks ago by his ISP (COMCAST). His ISP reduced his bandwidth and sent him a warning that he could face criminal procecution.

You see if your ISP sees illegal activity, then if they don't act then they (the ISP) could be fined as well.

Also, a friend of mine was also caught and faces a huge fine and his computer was seized for downloading content from The Pirate Bay and from other pirate websites.

So , please heed this warning: BE CAREFULL !!! YOU ARE BEING WATCHED !!!

[Hellfighter]

in WWII all telephone were easy drop on talk outside USA
then Pres Bush they did it again

but i was told back in late 70s be careful what you do no then is secure at all, one may think no one is watching you or them, even one party inside a game (lan party) like DF: backhawk down and playing same time other maybe downloading a torrent from the internet! both party be look at real good once over, even if say one of them is using a torrent to share a DVD with each other over the internet they know.

old days it was cool! but copy right items getting real bash now days so don't try it

i think they search for wording in the torrent file to catch other doing like dvd, movies hellboy, rated-r and Microsoft, norton, they to searching see were it coming from and what ISP/ DNS leads get on the files upload and downloads

don't do it now days you may have big brother or some law enforcement knocking your door down for some cheap @ss software or item you could have pay for, beats the fine one get and the lawyer fee for court date.

i got a gut feeling there maybe one come to the forum (nameless) asking for help do to the disc or files gone bad, ISO file don't last long and some torrent ISO files not all the data is there on the internet to get, parts of the files are gone or bad download it happens a lot. there no shock about that.

[Guest001]

I am glad to see this response and my aim was to bring this to the attention of all the members and visitors to the NovaHQ

The flippant remarks bantered forth and the serious demands uttered are a supreme example of the arrogance one can assume in the full belief in and of their own convictions and in some cases, regardless of widely perceived and accepted legalities.

[Guest001]

BitLet
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BitLet Developer(s) Daniele Castagna
Alessandro Bahgat Shehata
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in English
Type Peer-to-peer
License GNU General Public License
Website BitLet.org


BitLet, abbreviation for BitTorrent Applet, is a BitTorrent program that enables the use of this file sharing protocol inside any Java-enabled web browser, without the need of an external dedicated client program.
[edit] Features

The software intends to make the use of BitTorrent very simple. To make a download, the user first needs to obtain a valid torrent metafile URL. The user then copies the URL to BitLet's main page and clicks the download link, initiating the downloading process.

All the sharing is done by the user's computer, which is actively uploading and downloading as long as the program window is open. This differentiates it from other services like ImageShack's torrent download feature, which does the sharing on the server side, allowing the user to download the torrent by HTTP in the end.

This system also allows webmasters to easily distribute files using the BitTorrent protocol without requiring the visitors of their sites to install and know how to use a BitTorrent client. To do that, a webmaster needs to find a tracker that directs the BitTorrent downloads and uploads of his file, host the .torrent file, and then display a link in his site, prefixing a URL code to the torrent's online location[2]. The BitLet site provides a code generator to create the HTML for that link[1]; some sites that distribute torrent files already provide such links along with the URL to their torrents, including Fenopy

and Suprnova

. However, no means of embedding the applet and player into third-party sites exists as of July 2009.

BitLet also allows streaming audio in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis formats, an experimental streaming video feature (mostly using Theora, with optional HTML 5 playback), and an uploader for turning a file into a torrent.

[Guest001]

You Will Not Bit Torrent!

[dave61]

Originally Posted by stompem

Even if it does say "legal Torrents" I still wouldn't trust it.

You internet history that your ISP has access to will still say THE PIRATE BAY, which will throw a red flag to your ISP.

The people at The Pirate Bay can afford to be "flippant" in their responces to the lawyers because the country that they live in has leanent laws governing copyright materials.
We however don't have that convenience.

[SilentTrigger]

owners of thb have gotten a prisonsentence in Sweden. isp here are still protecting their customers but might change

[Guest001]

Originally Posted by stompem

You Will Not Bit Torrent!

I am not a bit Torrent tragic, I understand and comply with the system.

The world for us just cannot be for free, even in the future with robots to serve us there still has to be a cost and so a debt to pay, someone has to invent and produce it all. Some one has to work, and so they must be paid in kind.

[SilentTrigger]

Can also be noted that they ware fined around 4 Million US$ for aiding in spreading copyrighted material.

[dave61]

Originally Posted by SilentTrigger*MFA*

Can also be noted that they ware fined around 4 Million US$ for aiding in spreading copyrighted material.

That's it exaclty. When it comes right down to covering their a$$es , who will TPB protect?
Your a$$ or their A$$?

You don't even have to awnser.

Originally Posted by stompem

I am not a bit Torrent tragic, I understand and comply with the system.

The world for us just cannot be for free, even in the future with robots to serve us there still has to be a cost and so a debt to pay, someone has to invent and produce it all. Some one has to work, and so they must be paid in kind.

Stomp,
But we can't just steal copyrighted material and think just because someone put it out there that it's OK for us to use. And I'm not saying that you did download Pirated material, I'm saying that anyone who accesses (and uses) those pirate websites are subject to criminal prosecution and should be. Because stealing is stealing.

Like you said, nothing is free.

jmho,
Dave

[Guest001]

I have used them "TPB" for NoCD cracks for Games I own to prevent wear and tear on the disk and for faster loading times. I thought you could do it if you owned the software (stated many times on the net) so this is not true? I am worried now!

I put my serial code in so that is part of the protection and I don't know if some one could crack the game until you install it and you can't install until you enter the serial.
I don't get fully cracked games or serials just the NoCD crack

I have 200+ owned games to prove it? Does it prove any thing?
Am I under the gun do you think?