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A 2004 email from The Pirate Bay to DreamWorks

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Ah, for the internet we had back then.
- When the internet made us happy.
Sheer poetry.
Narrator: Dreamworls did indeed go and fuck themselves.
- No they don’t, they and the rest of the US entertainment industry forced our government to put an increasing amounts of pressure on Sweden resulting in anakata and the other 2 founders serving a year in prison plus about $4 million in fines about 5 years after this was sent. They are lucky they live somewhere where the penal system is not overly retributive, otherwise the punishment would’ve likely been much more severe
  (Assuming you’re American) your tax dollars at work
  
  I'll have you know my tax dollars go to killing innocent people thank you very much.
  
  Too bad nothing changes and pirating is making a big comeback.
  
  How is a film studio’s legal action anyone’s tax dollars at work?
Now this is the fresh content that brings me to Lemmy.
- If I can find any more 20 year old emails, I'll be sure to tag you.
  
  If you run out of emails, check the old fax pile
Polite as usual,
🤌
I'm going to sign off all terse emails with "polite as usual" from now on
Honestly, whenever anakata comes up, that picture immediately springs into my mind. Pirate Bay was fine, his stunt in Denmark probably was not (and completely unnecessary). His extradition from Cambodia was shady, but then again, he probably did commit fraud.
I'm on the fence... overall, probably not the hero we need. Proper email response, though.
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