Legal Threat Reply
 

Haha just read this and thought id share,

Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 18:21:43 -0100 (GMT)
From: anakata
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Unauthorized Use of DreamWorks SKG Properties

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 [email protected] wrote:

> Dennis L. Wilson, Esq.
> KEATS McFARLAND & WILSON, LLP
> 9720 Wilshire Blvd., Penthouse Suite
> Beverly Hills, CA 90212
> Tel: (310) 248-3830
> Fax: (310) 860-0363
>
>
> August 23, 2004
>
>
> VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL
> AND U.S. MAIL
>
> ThePirateBay.org
> Box 1206
> Stockholm 11479
> SWEDEN
>
> [email protected]
>
> Re: Unauthorized Use of DreamWorks SKG Properties
> http://www.thepiratebay.org
>
> To Whom It May Concern:
>
> This letter is being written to you on behalf of our
> client, DreamWorks SKG (hereinafter ^hahaha65427;DreamWorks^hahaha65428;).
> DreamWorks is the exclusive owner of all copyright,
> trademark and other intellectual property rights in
> and to the ^hahaha65427;Shrek 2^hahaha65428; motion picture. No one is
> authorized to copy, reproduce, distribute, or
> otherwise use the ^hahaha65427;Shrek 2^hahaha65428; motion picture without
> the express written permission of DreamWorks.
[...]
> As you may be aware, Internet Service Providers can
> be held liable if they do not respond to claims of
> infringement pursuant to the requirements of the
> Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). In
> accordance with the DMCA, we request your assistance
> in the removal of infringements of the ^hahaha65427;Shrek 2^hahaha65428;
> motion picture from this web site and any other sites
> for which you act as an Internet Service Provider.
> We further declare under penalty of perjury that we
> are authorized to act on behalf of DreamWorks and
> that the information in this letter is accurate.
> Please contact me immediately to discuss this matter
> further.

As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States
of America. Sweden is a country in northern Europe.
Unless you figured it out by now, US law does not apply here.
For your information, no Swedish law is being violated.

Please be assured that any further contact with us, regardless of medium,
will result in
a) a suit being filed for harassment
b) a formal complaint lodged with the bar of your legal counsel, for
sending frivolous legal threats.

It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons, and
that you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons.

Please also note that your e-mail and letter will be published in full on
http://www.thepiratebay.org.

Go fuck yourself.

Polite as usual,
anakata

hahahaha nice one...

that would be a funny reply if you had done your homework first. there are several fundamental problems with your legal defense.

Copyrights are Internationally protected.

Obviously you did not run this through your attorney as your reply suggests.

Yeppers. :thumbsup

google "hague + convention + treaty"

He'll get assfucked in the end but it's still a funny reply.

Oh, to be young again...LOL

He has a similar letter from and to Apple on his site too.

Nice to see that you gave a professional response, speaks volumes about you and your character. I'm sure your legal threats have them shaking in their leather recliners. BTW, if you think they cant sue you, how do you figure you can sue them using the anti frivolous lawsuit laws that we have here in the US. Or do you think that Swedish laws apply here in the states?

on a side note, I hope your host is not located within the States

Regardless of it's authenticity, it's funny as hell. You know that's what everybody really wants to reply to lawyers LOL

but swedes are totally untouchable ! sweden is better than being in panama even!

there is a little thing called the doctrine of unclean hands in the u.s. legal system. even if he was 100% justified a response like that can sink your ship so to speak.

dreamworks is notorious for sending harrasing legal threats with no basis..

he is right DMCA does not apply to sweden. There are other laws that may cover this in sweden , but dmca doesn't and not too many people will argue this.

Its sort of funny , but a lawyer reads it , and they are made of stone, only using it against you. they wont laugh.

You may or may not be protected in Sweden to an extent but any income you derive from the US or other countries can easily be levied.

Also talking to someone so totally unprofessionally like that typically provokes a "mission" to nail your ass.

If you think you have the resources to take on 3 of the most powerful Jews in Hollywood, Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg and win, then dude you are in living in Dreamland for sure.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I wish I was in Europe.I hate the rules in the state. :throwup

A possible self-ownage right there :Oh crap

You owned yourself. That must suck. :(

guys, read carefully, it's not his replyyyyyyyyyyyy

he just saw it somewhere and quoted it here

why do you all think that is his site? seems to me he was just reading it and pasted it here

if I post an article from cnn, do you commend me for good writing?

damn, you beat me to it :)

are we the only ones that actually pay attention to anything?

You're a fool Aaron...you know that copyrights aren't even enforceable state to state within the US.
:1orglaugh

Its not mine, I pulled it off the site, I don`t think I will have the guts to do that anytime soon

Its not proper to make fun out of legal stuffs like this.

This is a very strange sentence:

">We further declare under penalty of perjury that we
> are authorized to act on behalf of DreamWorks and
> that the information in this letter is accurate."



j-

Only by countries that have signed the copyright treaty agreement.
Sweeden with it's never ending policies of "Not getting involved" is not a signing nation on that.

Translation:

Good pirates go to sweeden

[timeline pic]
this was posted on gfy and discussed already last year....

That's funny..

Funny to see how people respond too.

why not?

Sorry, not trying to be bitch to you. But I've been wanting to use this NEW IMPROVED version of the timeline pic.

Now who deserves to be soddomized?

hmmm, I think I can top that.
I had a lawyer send us some sort of bullshit C&D or legal action threat.
I took a digital pic of me holding it up so it could be read and then took another pic of me rubbing the letter against my ass.
I then emailed him the two pictures.

why is that strange?