More Time, plead TPB investigators
p2pnet.net news:- It’s been more than a year since police in Sweden seized gear belonging to The Pirate Bay during an MPAA-inspired raid.
But it seems the investigators haven’t been able to find anything suitably incriminating. So now they’re apparently demanding more time.
Swedish prosecutor HÃ¥kan Roswall, “has publicly stated in Ny Teknik that he is going to file for an extension in the case against The Pirate Bay since the work of going through the servers is still not done,” says TPB, going on:
Wasting more of the tax payers money and not returning the over 100 servers from unrelated PRQ customers is nothing but a big scandal by the Swedish authorities.
Further, he states that they are about to start going through the encrypted material on many computers.
There was no encrypted harddrives, partitions or even loop files on the servers that belong to The Pirate Bay. The encrypted data he is talking about must therefore belong to the PRQ customers.
It is our firm belief that either Hakan Roswall is using The Pirate Bay raid as a cover-up for going through other peoples data or that he is about to take a long holiday and do not want to work this summer.
There is no reason for not just copying the data from the hard drives and returning the hardware to the many organisations that need them to function – even though the government have wasted almost one year of the affected organisations time. The justice ombudsman apparantly believes that these servers are already returned, months ago, and he based his decisions partly on that false information.
If the court grants Hakan Roswall any more time extension on this case it is clearly for going through other data than The Pirate Bay’s. This should not be accepted as this was not the reason for the [unnecessary] raid. Being computer experts (and the owners of the data, we know what we have on the computers) we cannot see any reason for any more time being used on this. Honestly, we would have copied the data in less than a day, but then again we are really good at copying.
The Pirate Bay is a file sharing network where users put up content to share with other users. No content is hosted on any server at The Pirate Bay besides the .torrent file which contains no copyrighted material what so ever. According to previous similar court cases this is not illegal.
When the scandal first broke, there were suggestions that the Bush administration was behind the police raid.
American embassy spokesman Robert Hilton said at the time, “The Unites States has not taken any action, or threatened to take action against Sweden with the World Trade Organization. Instead, we seek to work together to protect these important assets, properties and copyrights that are the work of our citizens.”
Swedish justice minister Thomas Bodström said he’d welcome an investigation into allegations that the raids followed threats of sanctions from the US
“Bodström was reacting to accusations that the Justice Department had tried to influence HÃ¥kan Roswall, the prosecutor leading the case against The Pirate Bay,” said The Local.
Roswall didn’t feel he was been, “subjected to political pressure when he met two Justice Department officials on April 7th,” said the story, which had him declaring:
“My judgment was that they had a duty to inform me why copyright offences were to be made a higher priority, that is to say because it was a question of national interest. But nothing was said about what I was expected to do, or how, or why. They are quite simply not capable of telling me how to investigate this kind of offence.”
The meeting was preceded by a conference in Washington DC, “regarding file sharing, financed by the American Embassy and the Swedish government, but Roswall says he did not take part,” said The Local, adding, “He claims it would have been unsuitable, as the conference would be attended by ‘lobbyists’.”
Also See:
MPAA-inspired raid – The Pirate Bay back online, June 3, 2006
TPB – File for an extension, May 24, 2007
behind the police raid – US denies Sweden file sharing threat, June 22, 2006
The Local РBodstr̦m welcomes interference probe, June 21, 2006
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