20 years ago, Pirate Bay's response to legal threats from DreamWorks

20 years ago, Pirate Bay's response
Holy shit I'm so old 😭
- 20 years ago
  Sees letter is dated 2004...
  Why have you done this to me?
  
  That's like 8 years ago.
  ...
  Wait... crap. We are old.
  
  I graduated high school in 2004 😭
- sad Napster noises

One day I hope to write a "go fuck yourself" email of this caliber.
- If every peasant started treating his opressor like this, we might actually start getting results.
  
  We would need all peasants doing it at once. One peasant doing it just means you get your head cut off, which unfortunately doesn't help.

The Darknet Diaries podcast made a really good episode about The Pirate Bay, telling the entire story, including funny stories like the responses to these letters, and interviewing Peter Sunde, one of the 3 founders. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/92/
- Thanks, you gave me a new podcast to listen to.
  
  It’s one of my favorites! Also check out Search Engine, one of my favorite new podcasts with an amazing host. “What’s the best phone to do crimes on”, the latest episode, is excellent—Darknet Diaries covered the subject as well, but this goes into even more detail.
  I also loved “Who’s behind all those spammy text messages?” but that one gets DARK.

IIRC, the US accusers even quoted US federal law at TPB in emails preceding this. They had probably just assumed TPB were US based and this response where how they found out.
I'm still salty about Sweden bending over about this, tho. Sovereignty is a lie.
- There are tolerated quirks, and then there is insubordination. Defying US Copyright Law would have been the latter, it was not tolerated.

The hunt for the cofounders of torrent site The Pirate Bay was a lengthy game of cat-and-mouse, spanning several continents. In the end, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm all ended up in prison.