[portej05]

http://www.blogpirate.org/2009/05/10/pirate-bay-founder-crafts-distributed-denial-of-dollars-attack/

Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm (aka anakata) recieved a bill for the 30 million SEK that he, along with Peter Sunde (aka brokep), Fredrik Neij (aka TiAMO), and Carl Lundstrom, was fined in the verdict of the Pirate Bay trial just over three weeks ago. The bill inspired anakata to devise a plan involving sending money to Danowsky’s law firm, but not to pay the fine of course which they say will never be payed. Anakata’s clever plan is called internet-avgift, internet-fee in English. Anakata encourages all Internet users to pay extremely small sums around 1 SEK (0.13 USD) to Danowsky’s law firm, which represented the music companies at the Pirate Bay trial. The music companies will not benefit from this, instead it will cost them money to handle and process all the money.

Thoughts?

[Grizzly]

Awesome.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Interesting tactic. Just send them in instalments so small that they can't cover the costs needed to take them in. That's brilliant.

Let's see what the music companies will do next...

[karajorma]

I'd buy that for (significantly less than) a dollar!

[Blue Lion]

Can't they just not accept the money? If the money is supposed to come from these guys, can't they just not take it?

I'm not well versed in this, so someone will have to explain.

[karajorma]

If they didn't take the money the owners of The Pirate Bay would have a significant case to claim that they tried to pay the bill but the money was not accepted.

It's similar to paying the fine in pennies (or whatever the equivalent is). Pennies are legal tender after all. It's the lawyers problem to figure out how they would transfer 3 billion of them to the bank.

[Blue Lion]

If they didn't take the money the owners of The Pirate Bay would have a significant case to claim that they tried to pay the bill but the money was not accepted.

It's similar to paying the fine in pennies. Pennies are legal tender after all. It's the lawyers problem to figure out how they would transfer 3 billion of them to the bank.

But the pirate bay guys aren't paying? If this is somehow routing it to the guys own account and then his account sending the payment maybe. Can't they decline... say me paying some random guys bill?

That's why I'm kinda unsure on the law here. Is it enough that they are paid, or do THOSE guys have to pay it?

[Inquisitor]

Conventional wisdom indicates that THEY have to pay it.

Also, something like this is not likley to generate any positive legal benefit for PB. Probably the opposite.

[Nuke]

genious, ****ing genious

[Blue Lion]

"genius" 

[cloneof]

Naah, they don't have to pay yet. This thing is going to a higher court.

Around... Six more years and who knows.

[BlackDove]

Conventional wisdom indicates that THEY have to pay it.

Also, something like this is not likley to generate any positive legal benefit for PB. Probably the opposite.

Yeah, but then again, it wasn't meant to.

[Nuke]

"genius" 

i must be a genious sence im the only one who knows how to spell genious correctly

[colecampbell666]

[Nuke]

even google gets it wrong, this is seriously bad and must be corrected

[an0n]

I've got your corrections right here...

* an0n gets the golf clubs