's creation was a response to the prosecution of a 16-year-old from the town of Liberec, who created his own, much more modes linking site earlier this year. Pirate parties are on the rise in many countries around the world, including GermanyĬzech entertainment distributors stay quiet Its four founders lost their appeal in a Swedish court last fall and were collectively sentenced to a total fine of 46 million crowns (nearly 5 million euros). If other European legal precedent is any guide, 's founders may suffer the same fate as the founders of The Pirate Bay, a similar file-sharing linking site from Sweden. The Pirate Party believes it should be legal, however, which is why they created in the first place. But sharing something that's been copyrighted - like a film or CD - is illegal. Neither is the act of downloading it from the Internet. 'I think much more important with piracy than it's free is that it's really comfortable.”Ĭurrently in the Czech Republic, copying something for one's own use is not illegal. 'I can imagine getting an account on a movie website if it makes it more comfortable for me,' he added. However, when pressed, Ferjencik also said that the new site exists in a sort of grey area and that the Czech Republic is behind other European and North American countries in that there aren't many legal movie downloading services. 'I don't want to go to a shop to buy a DVD with a movie where I have to wait 10 minutes while I skip all the anti-piracy adverts, and the shop's open only until 6:00 pm, and I decide at 8:00 pm that I want to watch a movie, and it's available for three clicks and I can watch it right away,' explained Mikulas Ferjencik, the party's vice president, in an interview with Deutsche Welle. The Pirate Bay, a similar site in Sweden, faces fines of millions of euros The party says if they succeed in keeping the site online, the influence of the copyright lobby would be severely hampered, something that would have major implications for downloading in the Czech Republic and perhaps throughout Europe. Since the site went online on July 28, over 100,000 people have accessed - which the Pirate Party says is proof that the people are on its side. The founders of ('Tip for a film') launched the site as a direct response to the prosecution of a Czech teenager for launching a similar site earlier this year. Plus, those links are ranked both by download speed and also by how they fare on established movie websites like IMDB - and it has links to many of the latest hits, including 'Harry Potter' and 'The Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' The site, which started last month, contains links to Hollywood blockbusters on popular file-sharing sites. The Czech Pirate Party has launched a new website that the global entertainment industry isn't going to be too happy about.

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