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I think the problem is that people fall into two camps on this issue –Ī) those who have made part or all of their living out of intelectual property (e.g. This reminds me of one of the torrent groups who were releasing 3D films – they started password protecting their torrents and complaining that other groups were stealing their hard work by releasing them as their own – seemingly oblivious to the fact that they themselves were giving away other people’s hard work that cost millions to produce!

Or is it fair enough, they have a point and that people’s work in building up a site should be protected? Is it ironic that aside that made its name and launched a political party on the back of giving away musician’s music without their permission is now up in arms over people doing the same to them? This isn’t the first time that activists who campaign against strong intellectual property protection have discovered that strong intellectual property protection can actually be quite handy. TPB hasn’t called in the intellectual property lawyers although it could clearly benefit from the strong legal protections available to it. Using The Pirate Bay logo or font is a trademark violation, as is using the piratebay.ee domain. Passing off is a trademark violation, even if a trademark hasn’t been registered. The proxies do indeed violate TPB’s intellectual property in several ways. “This site is a bad copy of other sites, like TPB, and it’s totally meaningless,” The Pirate Bay told the blog TorrentFreak. Several of the copycats, including a proxy operating at thepiratebay.ee, inserted requests for payments into the unlicensed material indexed by TPB, which particularly enraged the Swedish Pirates. The site that has turned into a political organisation built around the belief that there should be no copyright and the all music should be given away for free, by them, whilst earning money from ads is angry that there are several proxy sites that have sprung up in some cases using pirate bay domains leeching off the original.