By Egan Orion
09 May 2008 - 11:50 AM

THE MPAA says it will be demanding $15.4 million from Pirate Bay when its lawsuit goes to trial. The content mafiaa plans to claim damages for just four movies -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Syriana, The Pink Panther and Walk the Line -- and 13 episodes of the recent TV series Prison Break.

It's demanding between 222.50 and 261.50 kronor ($37 to $43) for each film download and 416 kronor ($68) for Prison Break's first season. According to the MPAA's law firm MAQS, Pirate Bay's users downloaded The Pink Panther 49,593 times and Syriana 3,679 times. MAQS calls the damage claim amounts "not unreasonable" of course. It says the distributed files were made available by Pirate Bay prior to the release of DVDs or legal downloads.

Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde (Brokep) told Torrent Freak he wasn't impressed by the Hollywood companies' claims, saying "They know they are losing, and try to make us look like big criminals by adding some zeros to a claim for a made-up crime." He went on, "The worst thing is that I lost 100 kronor on a bet on the number they would come up with. And, it sucks that they didn't claim more than for Napster and the other sites. It's cooler to break the record."

However, monetary claims against Pirate Bay are piling up. Last month IFPI claimed damages of $2.5 million. Earlier Thursday, Antipiratbyrån requested $1.1 million. And prosecutor Håkan Roswall asked the court in January for $188,000 in fines against Fredrik Neij (TiAMO), Gottfrid Svartholm (Anakata), Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström.