p2pnet - rss feed: MPAA ‘Dear Sweden’ letter
p2pnet.net News:- There never was any doubt that Hollywood’s Big Six movie studios were behind the attempt to close down The Pirate Bay.
Hollywood’s “blatant efforts to use the Swedish police force to stomp it” failed, we posted in June, going on:
“The tool used was the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), headed up by Glickman. But it’s possible The Persuader, Dean Garfield, was significantly involved in the attempt to shut TPB down. His associations with Sweden are many.”
Was the Bush administration also threatening Sweden with economic sanctions if it didn’t help Hollywood? No, swore the US embassy in Stockholm.
But, “As I am sure you are aware, the American embassy has sent entreaties to the Swedish government urging it to take action against The Pirate Bay and other organizations operating within Sweden to faciitate copyright theft,” says MPAA factotum John Malcolm.
There is, of course, no such thing as “copyright theft” and Hollywood’s claims that it’s being ruined by file sharers are entirely empty, as the current raging success of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, currently at the top of both the movie industry and p2pnet charts, suggests.
Meanwhile, Sweden’s SVT.se published the text of a letter delivered to the country’s secretary of state and minister of Justice, and re-published by H-Zone.
It’s signed by John G. Malcolm, director of the MPAA’s so-called anti-piracy division, who also a plugs both Wired News and Slyck ;p
(Thanks, Lars.)
Also See:
blatant efforts - The Pirate Bay back online, June 3, 2005
economic sanctions - US denies Sweden file sharing threat, June 22, 2006
entirely empty - Pirates II tops file sharing charts, July 24, 2006
H-Zone - MPAA vs. ThePirateBay: the original lobbying document, June 28, 2006
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July 24th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
I should love to see what stationary was sent Russia. Just imagine… a sovereign country actually standing-up to **AA.
July 25th, 2006 at 4:25 am
I wonder why they don’t send letters like this to China, and the rest of the far east, where this happens far more often, and where there are even large hardcopy bootlegging operations. It must be 1984…
July 25th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
Check this post too
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=113526
July 25th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
“I wonder why they don’t send letters like this to China, and the rest of the far east, where this happens far more often, and where there are even large hardcopy bootlegging operations.”
Because behind the letter is a money or other offer to some burocrat.
That is too risky in the orient. Could land someone in jail. In western countries, in monarcies, where corruption is more widespread and is frequently the norm the risks are lower.
July 25th, 2006 at 6:07 pm
Weird that they sent it in English.
July 26th, 2006 at 1:04 am
I dont reckon its weird that they sent it in English - I wouldnt expect anything else - they dont even seem to be able to recognise the soverignty of a foreign country let alone their language or culture.
Wide spread contempt was otherwise known as completely lawful activity a year ago in Sweden so in fact it has never grown, it was always there, its just the stupidity of the likes of the MPAA/RIAA/Government that turned cultural discourse into a property shit fight.
July 26th, 2006 at 8:18 am
Not really - English is now the international language of commerce.
Well, more ‘Americanese’ than English but the point remains valid.