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"When we heard that The Pirate Bay is being sold and is going legit, we were skeptical; it seemed nearly impossible to pull off. But even our skepticism didn't match the problems with the sale together with the onslaught of lawsuits which seem to be coming from every corner of the world, even moreso now than before.\nNow, TorrentFreak reports that the Italian RIAA, or FIMI (Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana) and FPM (Federation against Musical Piracy) will sue The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm in Italy for 1 million euros.\nWhy now? Well, this lawsuit has a history, and the FIMI lost the first battle; now, it wants revenge. In August 2008, the Italian ISPs were ordered by court to block The Pirate Bay, but the case was overturned after an appeal. Now, FIMI will sue The Pirate Bay on the basis of evidence collected in that case, and the trigger for the lawsuit is the sale of the site. \nPresident of FIMI, Enzo Mazza, said: \u201CThe claim is also based on the principle that by selling the site to others, the founders have confirmed that the whole illegal operation of The Pirate Bay was to make a profit and it is therefore unacceptable that someone can take the money and then escape without repairing the damage.\u201D\nIn short, the entertainment industry wants not only to defeat and erase The Pirate Bay from the face of the Earth; they want to squash it and make an example of it so that no other similar service tries to fight them in court ever again. Although the initial Pirate Bay trial was awash in controversy, the pirates lost and now their corpse is being dragged around town. \nAbout that sale of The Pirate Bay, and its subsequent transformation into a legit service? Forget about it, soon there won't be anything left to transform."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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