{"id":20539,"date":"2011-05-26T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-27T18:39:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T18:39:01","slug":"the-pirate-bay-under-fire-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/20539-the-pirate-bay-under-fire-again.html","title":{"rendered":"The Pirate Bay under fire again"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The development of a legal online market is impossible in Finland if illegal services like The Pirate Bay are freely allowed to continue their operations,” said Lauri Rechardt, a spokesman for Finland’s branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which represents the companies.<\/p>\n

Finland’s Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre filed the petition on behalf of the IFPI, asking the courts to require Internet provider Elisa to block access to The Pirate Bay from Finland.<\/p>\n

Founded in 2003, The Pirate Bay makes it possible to skirt copyright fees and share music, film and computer game files using bit torrent technology, or peer-to-peer links offered on the site.<\/p>\n

In April 2009, Pirate Bay founders Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg were sentenced to prison and hefty fines for copyright infringement, but the site is still operational.<\/p>\n

The Pirate Bay<\/strong><\/a> << Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finnish record labels said Thursday they filed a petition in court to block access to The Pirate Bay, a popular Swedish website that provides access to copyrighted music, movies, and other material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-20539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}