Unleash The What?

During my usual morning perusal of various blog and social sites, I came across a story about a website attempting to get back at The Pirate Bay by selling Anti-Pirate Bay t-shirts.  The site, called Unleash the Bats, uses the Pirate Bay’s own logo in some t-shirts of it’s own, along with other materials aimed at supposedly helping angry artists spread the message about how evil TPB is to the ‘creative industries’.  As to what “Unleash the Bats” means, I honestly couldn’t take a guess.  Maybe it’s a British thing?  More than likely it’s just an idiotic thing though…

The article on TorrentFreak reminds us that TPB really could care less about their own copyrights, even highlighting how Peter Sunde from TPB has sent Unleash the Bats a message offering them the link to higher quality images to use for their branding.  I guess the ultimate question is, do the ‘creative industry’ executives actually think something like this is going to work?

Though generally I try to stay out of the discussion as much as possible, I should make it clear that I love The Pirate Bay.  I watched the results of their case, and continue to watch as the lines of deceit and deception are revealed.  Watching a group of ‘industries’ completely miss the point time and time again is definitely fun for me, what about you?

 

- Andy