The Pirate Bay in court

Antimon · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:33 am Post subject: The Pirate Bay in court

A couple of days ago the trial against The Pirate Bay began in swedish court. TPB is the worlds largest torrent-tracker, and is charged with soliciting and preparing for crimes against copyright. On the other side are representatives for the international movie and music industries and other parties. There is a lot of media coverage of this event, which is made even more interesting by the fact that the accused take a kind of moral stance, saying that (besides not having violated any law), they are morally in the right, that they a realizing a kind of ideology that is opposed to intellectual property as a concept.

Among other things, this has made me realize that I am a behind (as well as parts of the traditional media) in the modern blog-oriented life - it's all a bit confusing.

Google for the subject of this thread if you're interested.

/Stefan

elektro80 · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:49 am Post subject:

For scandinavians only:

Video: Jon Bing forklarer Pirate Bay saken
http://www.tv2.no/video/?progId=288192

[url=Piratene vil bli dømt]http://aftenbladet.no/underholdning/musikk/990104/-_Piratene_vil_bli_doemt_.html[/url]

elektro80 · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:01 am Post subject:

I´m expecting the guys to transfer "ownership" of Pirate Bay ( as the infrastructure is already outside of Sweden ), and they will lose the case.. but the court will be reasonably kind to them.

Antimon · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:18 am Post subject:

Here is The Pirate Bay's own site covering the trial:

http://trial.thepiratebay.org/

...and a couple of other hits on google:

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/court-drops-50-of-charges-against-pirate-bay-532322

http://www.ereads.com/richard_curtis/2009/02/pirate-bay-standing-up-in-court-for.html

/Stefan

Antimon · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:51 pm Post subject:

The first round is over. Four persons running The Pirate Bay were sentenced to one year in prison and to pay 30 million SEK (~3 million Euro) in damages. A fair amount of news coverage on this around the world.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6111777.ece

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/17/sweden.piracy.jail/index.html

Many have commented that they think this is an unexpectedly harsh penalty, even though they thought they were going to be found guilty. There's probably going to be two more rounds of appeal before a prejudicial verdict is found in the swedish supreme court.

/Stefan

elektro80 · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:55 pm Post subject:

Nah, all things considered this is a pretty cute and cuddly verdict. But they will be back for another round in court.

v-un-v · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:48 am Post subject:

I saw a documentary quite a few years back now, about Swedish prison, being the most liberal system in the world. Is this still true, or are you swilling Gruel once more?

The jury is out for me on illegal downloading. After a few years when I had released my first LP, a friend Kath said that she was really looking forward to listening to my album, as soon as it downloaded from Hotline Exclamation

. I do admit myself to using dodgy software in the past, but these days tend to prefer shareware, because my new opinion is that supporting cracked software only keeps the monopoly with the big boys- such as Adobe for eg.

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 2:01 am Post subject:

I say, fry 'em! Laughing

With severe prejudice!! Evil or Very Mad

v-un-v · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:34 am Post subject:

I'm surprised you would say that coming from a nation of ex-convicts! Laughing

Antimon · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:50 am Post subject:

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:41 am Post subject:

This whole "If you can get away with stealing, then you have an obligation to do it." bullshit just makes me wanna puke.
"Oh, but I have to steal a copy off the net!! If I paid for it, I wouldn't be able to make the payments on my car!!" Rolling Eyes

Eat lead fucker! Bang! Twisted Evil

Johan Zwart · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:10 am Post subject:

Talking about stealing. Every time I burn a CD with my own work sombody els get payed. Is that fair?

mono-poly · Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:01 am Post subject:

Imho it's not stealing.
And what about services like Rapidshare?
They are getting paid for providing downloadable stuff.
No one gets paid for that.
I download all my stuff and if i really like it i'll buy an origional anyway.