Interesting read, looks like he's gonna go after the advertisers
Fred Goldman, father of Ron Goldman who was murdered alongside Nicole Brown Simpson in 1994, has joined the long line of people threatening legal action against The Pirate Bay. Goldman demands that they take down O. J Simpson?s ?murder confession? book, a publication to which he owns the rights.
Simpson
In 2006, O.J Simpson announced he was publishing a book in which he claimed he would reveal what would?ve happened, had he really murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in a frenzied 1994 knife attack. After publication and public disgust, the book was canceled, with 400,000 remaining copies being destroyed.
Although Simpson was acquitted of the double murder in a criminal trial, he was found liable for the unlawful killings in a civil action and was subsequently ordered to pay $33.5 million. However, Simpson has become an expert on finding ways not to pay this huge amount.
As a result, Fred Goldman, father of Ron Goldman, has been taking action to get his hands on Simpson?s assets and has recently won the rights (90% of the royalties) to Simpson?s book, entitled ?If I Did It?. The book was renamed ?If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer? and became a best seller.
We reported back in June that a digital version of the book had already been made available for download via The Pirate Bay. Now, according to an Associated Press report, Fred Goldman - who claims to have lost $150,000 due to this leak - filed a lawsuit Thursday in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, against The Pirate Bay.
Goldman?s attorneys wasted more of their client?s money by sending letters to The Pirate Bay demanding that the ?the Web site?s operators stop posting the book?. It seems they received the standard Pirate Bay response of reminding everyone that ?they are not subject to the laws of the United States?, which is of course, 100% true, residing in Sweden as they do.
The Pirate Bay?s brokep told TorrentFreak: ?It?s the same thing over again. People need to learn how the internet works before they try something like this. I welcome his lawsuit, since he has no case whatsoever. Maybe we should sue over taking our time and lying in the media about what we do??
The lawsuit claims that The Pirate Bay is making an ?illegal publication? of the book, with its advertisers - heavyweights such as Jamster, Target, The Wall Street Journal and Wal-Mart - collectively, according to attorney David Cook at least, providing ?the wealth through advertising?.
Cook said: ?Ron Goldman LLC will never be able to stop these pirates from posting that book online but they can do that in the poorhouse.?
Finishing on a threat may be customary Mr Cook, but it won?t work. Guaranteed.
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-s...ession-071130/
Fred Goldman, father of Ron Goldman who was murdered alongside Nicole Brown Simpson in 1994, has joined the long line of people threatening legal action against The Pirate Bay. Goldman demands that they take down O. J Simpson?s ?murder confession? book, a publication to which he owns the rights.
Simpson
In 2006, O.J Simpson announced he was publishing a book in which he claimed he would reveal what would?ve happened, had he really murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in a frenzied 1994 knife attack. After publication and public disgust, the book was canceled, with 400,000 remaining copies being destroyed.
Although Simpson was acquitted of the double murder in a criminal trial, he was found liable for the unlawful killings in a civil action and was subsequently ordered to pay $33.5 million. However, Simpson has become an expert on finding ways not to pay this huge amount.
As a result, Fred Goldman, father of Ron Goldman, has been taking action to get his hands on Simpson?s assets and has recently won the rights (90% of the royalties) to Simpson?s book, entitled ?If I Did It?. The book was renamed ?If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer? and became a best seller.
We reported back in June that a digital version of the book had already been made available for download via The Pirate Bay. Now, according to an Associated Press report, Fred Goldman - who claims to have lost $150,000 due to this leak - filed a lawsuit Thursday in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, against The Pirate Bay.
Goldman?s attorneys wasted more of their client?s money by sending letters to The Pirate Bay demanding that the ?the Web site?s operators stop posting the book?. It seems they received the standard Pirate Bay response of reminding everyone that ?they are not subject to the laws of the United States?, which is of course, 100% true, residing in Sweden as they do.
The Pirate Bay?s brokep told TorrentFreak: ?It?s the same thing over again. People need to learn how the internet works before they try something like this. I welcome his lawsuit, since he has no case whatsoever. Maybe we should sue over taking our time and lying in the media about what we do??
The lawsuit claims that The Pirate Bay is making an ?illegal publication? of the book, with its advertisers - heavyweights such as Jamster, Target, The Wall Street Journal and Wal-Mart - collectively, according to attorney David Cook at least, providing ?the wealth through advertising?.
Cook said: ?Ron Goldman LLC will never be able to stop these pirates from posting that book online but they can do that in the poorhouse.?
Finishing on a threat may be customary Mr Cook, but it won?t work. Guaranteed.
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-s...ession-071130/
you mean they make their money from ads. thanks for the clarification. We had no idea. I thought they were charging people $10 to down load a song. 
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