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Pirate Bay Ship Hijackers Let Logo Hostage Go
On Monday, we reported that after noticing the iconic Pirate Bay logo had no commercial protection, a Swedish company took the first steps towards hijacking it for their own. “The idea is to sell USB drives using this brand,” said Sandryds Handel spokesman Bengt Wessborg. “We saw that it was not already allocated to someone else.
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A Swedish online clothing and tech retailer has assumed ownership of The Pirate Bay’s logo and plans to market the iconic pirate ship – with a cassette-tape image and crossbones — on USB sticks. The company, Sandryds Handel , registered the logo with Sweden’s Patent and Registration Office. The Pirate Bay founders, who face a year in prison pending the outcome of their criminal appeal for facilitating copyright infringement, had never registered the mark and have always allowed it to be reproduced.
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The Internet has many great and well-known trademarks. There can hardly be a web user anywhere in the world who has never seen the red, yellow, blue and green of Google’s logo, and millions every day skip past the same-colored staggered lettering of auction site, eBay. Those very same colors are used in the window representation used by Microsoft.
Continue reading »Pirate Bay Getting New Logo
Warns people not to be upset when their “t-shirts, tattoos, or similar” become obsolete. Global Gaming Factory is set to complete its acquisition of Swedish BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay on August 27th and item looks as though the deal won’t include the logo and “some graphical details.” From the sites: New graphics When TPB changes owner in the near future it has been agreed that the new owners will change the logo and some graphical details (although not too much). We just want to inform the people that are upset about their t-shirts, tattoos or similar.
Continue reading »Pirate Bay Offers DJ Joel Tenenbaum’s “$675,000 Mixtape”
Swedish BitTorrent tracker site offers visitors the 30 songs he was convicted for illegally downloading. Two weeks ago Joel Tenenbaum was convicted of copyright infringement for illegally downloading 30 songs using the KaZaA P2P program. At $22,500 per song for a total of $675,000, it was nearly 2.5 times the $9,250 per song and $222,000 total handed down to Jammie Thomas in the country’s first file-sharing case to go to trial that preceded him.
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