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The ‘legal threats’ section of The Pirate Bay is where record labels, movie companies, software house and general anti-pirates have their complaints posted after the staff on the site have ridiculed them. A new set of complaints has appeared in the last few days - some of the most cringe-worthy ever.
When organizations and companies don’t like it that their material - be it music, movies, games or software - are indexed by a torrent site, very often they will contact the site in question and demand that the relevant .torrent files are removed. A lot of sites will remove the files but a few refuse.
Most people know that The Pirate Bay doesn’t like to remove torrents at the copyright holders request, in fact they claim they have never removed any. Instead, when a copyright holder enters into dialogue with the staff, instead of removing the files in question the site posts the discussions up in the ‘Legal Threats’ section. Most of the discussions are entertaining to a degree, with some even extending to personal insults.
However, during the last few days, another copyright complaint and subsequent discussion has been posted and although many might find it funny, personally I found it quite embarrassing raising the question: Should copyright holders just keep their complaints to themselves to maintain some dignity - at least where The Pirate Bay is concerned?
The complaint comes from Ian Morrow at UK based label Gr8pop Ltd, representing American vocalist Indiana Gregg. Morrow requested the removal of a .torrent linking to the album “Woman At Work”, but the request was worded in an unfortunate way which appeared to betray a lack of legal understanding.
http://torrentfreak.com/dont-humiliate- ... ay-080625/I consider the "legal threats" section of the PirateBay to be required reading on the subject of BT, copyright and the music industry. This is another in a long line of music industry fools who have decided to complain to the PB, this one is particularly intesting for 2 reasons, the first being the complainants total lack of legal understanding, the second being the artist wades in with her own comments also. Funny thing is, without this complaint to the PirateBay, i would have never heard of this artist, perhaps PB should be invoicing for its PR work!
For those that want a good laugh at the cartels expense, check out the link
http://thepiratebay.org/legal 
