Goldmans sue over pirate site offering If I Did It

Ronald Goldman's father is suing a Swedish website that has posted O.J. Simpson's book If I Did It, about the slaying of his son and Simpson's ex-wife.

Swedish site The Pirate Bay has posted an online version of the book, ghostwritten for the former football star, and made it available for downloading.

Fred Goldman is demanding the book be taken off the website and has sued to recover profits lost to illegal copies.

Goldman, whose son Ron was found slain with Nicole Brown Simpson in 1994, was awarded the rights to O.J. Simpson's book in a court case earlier this year.

The football player was acquitted of the killings in a criminal trial, but the Goldman and Simpson families earned huge settlements from Simpson in a "wrongful death"civil suit.

A court awarded 90 per cent of the profits from the sale of If I Did It to theGoldmansbecause they had collected so little of the $35-million settlement.

Goldman's attorneys have sent a letter demanding The Pirate Bay stop posting the book and suing for profits they claim the website has collected in advertising.

Goldman claims the family has lost upwards of $150,000 because of theillegal pirate copies.

But his attorneys say the website operators are defiant, saying "they are not subject to the laws of the United States," the lawsuit said.

A call to The Pirate Bay was answered by a recording and the website was temporarily offline Thursday.

The book, If I Did It: Confessions of a Killer, is a New York Times bestseller.