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Michael Jackson Sues The Pirate Bay

By soulxtc

The "Prince of Pop" joins the list of artists claiming damages from the world's largest BitTorrent tracker site. Michael Jackson and has apparently decided to join a list of artists suing The Pirate Bay for $100 million in damages they say have been caused by the BitTorrent tracker site's "facilitation of copyright infringement." "The list of artists is not ready yet but the compensation claims will amount to more than $100 million (619 million kronor)," Web Sheriff President John Giacobbi told E24. Several months ago the Village People and ABBA hired WebSheriff also decided to go after The Pirate Bay for alleged "facilitation of copyright infringement, thus far to no avail. They were then followed by Prince, who also has not had much luck so far (he also went after YouTube if you recall).

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on May 19, 2008 (boomark / email).