Prince, Village People to sue Pirate Bay

Spare a thought for the people over at file-sharing website The Pirate Bay - they’re being attacked from all sides at the moment.

Following recent lawsuits and calls for ISPs to monitor illegal file sharing activities on websites such as The Pirate Bay, now artists Prince and The Village People are to sue the file-sharing website in a Swedish court, according to news website E24.se.

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Saturday, February 16th, 2008

Pirate Bay fight back thumbs nose at courts

When we told you on Tuesday of the legal steps being taken by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) to stop The Pirate Bay from doing its thing, we also suggested it wouldn’t be long before the hackers hit back.

Mere hours later, comes a retaliatory move that is both beautiful and cheeky - a set of instructions telling anyone barred by their ISP from accessing the Bay how to get back in the flow and it’s hosted on a site named after one of the IFPI bigwigs.

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Thursday, February 7th, 2008