Yes
Yes, it is intentionally ironic. I think that the 75% of the article where you pretended not to get this was a bit pointless.
The Pirate Bay has claimed it will sue Finland's main anti-piracy pressure group, theCopyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre(CIAPC), after the group illegally copied code from their Swedish neighbors. "We are outraged by this behavior," a spokesman told TorrentFreak in what must surely be the spirit of irony. "People must …
When I read about this on torrent freak, to me it was pretty obvious they were pointing out the irony and double standards of anti-piracy organisations and mocking the horror, outrage and lets sue stance that those organisations like to take. [Removed this bit because obviously that viewpoint isn't allowed.... someone has a very thin skin perhaps?]
Big Media are not concerned about keeping the law . They buy the best laws money can buy, paid for by campaign contributions to politicians who support them and by providing less favourable coverage to those who don't. They are the law, so far as they seem concerned, and see themselves as being at liberty to break it when it suits them, e.g. as with the Sony rootkit, which also reused materials in violation of copyright not belonging to them, regardless also of the Computer Misuse Act implications.
As to the Pirate Bay suing them for enforcement of their IP, who is going to act in court for a group big media have paid to have turned into a fugitive organisation ?
Welcome to the new serfdom, my friends, and hail our new corporate overlords.
Surely if they are hotlinking the content from the piratebay website its easy to use a few htaccess lines to replace what they are hotlinking with some porn images.
I have done this before to bandwidth hogs that have hotlinked images from my sites without permission, it doesn't take them long to remove the image once you do that
That's a shame. They should follow through—while laughing out the sides of their mouths—as it would waste the CIAPC's resources and rub salt into the CIAPC's hypocrisy; one of the best defences against rules is applying them consistently and to the letter. (The second is the Chewbacca defence, obviously.)
And, for the record, you can be in favour of copyright and still think enforcement groups that target little girls are wankers.
Big jump there to call the pirate bay thiefs it is like saying the Highways Agency is responsible for all drug trafficking on their roads so lets sue them.
The biggest problems with P2P is the complete lack of understanding about it. ISP's are like roads and sites are like direction signs but they are BOTH dumb in nature. Just like road signs the people doing the journey can ignore the signs and go their own way (the soon to be very popular distributed encrypted form of P2P).
The Pirate Bay chasing is a waste of time and effort people WILL do what they want as life is short (the trick to a business model is to make people want it not be sued into it). With the correct VPN/Encryption set up there is no answer once people move away to their OWN road signs which is what chasing the Pirate Bay "accelerates"and reduces the timethe big techs and media moguls have to sort out a business model before the next wave hits.
Trying to sue to hold up a crap business models never works in the end. The big corps have begun to move to better systems via a younger generation but the old guard is holding them back big time.
The Pirate Bay are not thiefs this is a serious misconception and causes more problems than it solves. In time content will be bought up and sold cheap by big techs and the old entertainment moguls will die off as their business model collapses in the face of this. But this will not be solved in the courts or parliaments end of.
Oh God! Contrary to popular belief, the RIAA were right all along - copying is stealing. TPB doesn't have a CSS file any more!
Applying a little simple-to-follow math, this outrageous crime has cost TBP... 6 (pages linked to the CSS) x 427 (lines in the CSS file) x 68,000 (users per day who would have seen said CSS file) = $1 zillion in lost revenue