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GloDal
Audiencee
JOHN
G.
MALCOLM
Executive
Vice
Presiderit
and
DirectorWorldwide
Anti-Piracy
Via
Facsimile
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The Honorable
D.m
EIiasson
State
Secretary
Miriisky
of
Justice
Rosenbad
4
,,
1
O?
33
Stockliolnl
Sweden
15503
VENTUSA
BOULEVARD
ENCINO,
CA
91436
TEL.:
(818)
95-6600
FAX:
(818)
382-1797
E-MAIL:
ohn-malwlrn@mpaa.o~
March
17,
2006Re:
The
Yirnte
Bay
Deu
State
Secretary;
As
you
w111
recall, on
October
12,2005,you
were
kind
enough
to
meet
with
me,
al
which
time
i
relayed my
concern
thnt
Sweden appears
to
have
become:
al
inieil~ationd
iracy
haveri.
We discussed
at
sorne
len&
an
organization
operatiiig
iri
Sweden
callcd
The
Pira-te Bay,
probably
the
wnrld's
iiios~
rominent BitTorrent
torrent-tracker
site
specializing
iii
the
unlawhl
distribution
of
copyighted
material.
Ai
tliat
Inne,
thepiratebay.com buasted
hat
:t
hosted 102,000
torrenr
filcs
(Ids
to
infringiiig
n-iatenal)
and
cipproximately
1,620,000
users.
Not
ordy
has
T11e
Piratc
Bay
continued
-
in
operation.
it
has
growi.
claiming
to
host
134.000
turrent
files
with
over
1,900,000
users
I
havc
takcn
the
Ilberty
of
attaching
two
articles
that
appeared
recently
about
The
Pirate
Bay.
'he
first,
\ilhich
appearcd
i11
Wired
n-iagazine,
a leading
popular journal
on
digital
issues.
The
L-
article
chroi~icles
n
depressii~g
etail the
level
of disrcspect for
inlellectud
property
in
Sweden.
Afier
citing
the
Motion Picnire Associatioli's
efforts
to
cducate
people
around
the world
about
the
conseqliences
of
piracy, the
article
qiiotes
orie
of
the
operalors oPThe
Pirare Bay:
"
CP'P'VP
also
inro
cciucatir~g
eople
abaut
rhe
consequences
ofpiracp,
"
Pirate
Bcs,
operator
Brokcp
.d701
buck
in
~n
e-mail.
"We'7.e
teuclzing them
how
to
do
it.
"
'Ilie
sccond ari~cle,
liich
appeared
at
S1yck.com
("ThePirateRay to
Cash
In"),
in which
tht:
v,
inner
of
a
populu
locd
game show
cällzd
"Thr
Top
Conrestant." pledged
ro
donate
20%
of
his
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