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Originally Posted by HarryT
Yes, I did indeed read it. They are whining that other people are using their "intellectual property" (logo, etc). Are you saying that it's "worse" to use someone's logo than to engage in massive copyright infringement?
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No they aren't whining about it. From the article (emphasis mine):
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“This site is a bad copy of other sites, like TPB, and it’s totally meaningless,” The Pirate Bay told the blog TorrentFreak.
The proxies do indeed violate TPB’s intellectual property in several ways. Passing off is a trademark violation, even if a trademark hasn’t been registered. Using The Pirate Bay logo or font is a trademark violation, as is using the piratebay.ee domain. TPB hasn’t called in the intellectual property lawyers – although it could clearly benefit from the strong legal protections available to it.
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Originally Posted by plib
They're not worried about other sites using pay to download, nor are they worried about TPB proxies, just that pay to download proxies are using fake TPB proxies to charge. There's an article about it on Torrentfreak and a comment about it on the TPB blog which makes their attitude clear. I think the original article got hold of the wrong end of the stick and now it's being flailed around incorrectly. |
It looks like they are taking care of the problem:
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The TPB crew say they have “re-hijacked” visitors to one and are now directing them back to their official blog. Furthermore, ThePirateBay.ee appears to have been visited by a pirate David Blaine who has made all ‘their’ content disappear.
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