The Pirate Bay Yellow for Sharing day
p2pnet news | Freedom:- “This group has 1,948 members.”
What group?
The Facebook Free The Pirate Bay! , and that was at 6:02 am Pacific.
“Sweden’s The Pirate Bay has been a thorn in the side of the entertainment cartels for years,” p2pnet posted recently, going on:
“Like other sites of its nature, most of which have succumbed to relentless ‘legal’ assault and battery, it’s been interfering with cartel plans to dominate the digital universe. But TPB has not only been hanging in, it’s been going from strength to strength, collecting admirers and supporters in the hundreds of millions.
“That’s why, with compliant Swedish and US governments backing them, Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, the members of the Big 4 organised music gang, and Hollywood, in the shape of Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney, have spent unaccountable millions of dollars trying to nail it having, they figure, already handily disposed of Russia’s AllofMP3.com.”
Swedish prosecutor HÃ¥kan Roswall spearheaded the corporate move to have Fredrik Neij (’TiAMO’), Gottfrid Svartholm (’Anakata’), Peter Sunde (’Brokep’) and businessman Carl Lundström charged with assisting copyright infringement.
But, “Given that TPB’s servers are stashed here there and everywhere, it’s hard to see what this official effort to crush the site will achieve,” and, “In case we lose the pending trial (yeah right) there will still not be any changes to the site,” said Sunde. “The Pirate Bay will keep operating just as always. We’ve been here for years and we will be here many more.”
However, the ‘Free The Pirate Bay’ Facebook move may be a little premature.
“The trial of four people involved in operating The Pirate Bay will likely not take place before the summer,” says The Local, going on:
“Anita Thimberg from the Stockholm district court cited the complexity of the case involving the file sharing site as one of the main reasons for the delay.
“It can take weeks for the parties to simply go through all the documents included in the summons,” she told The Local, also saying a large number of (vested) interests are parties to the case, “including record companies that may be seeking monetary damages”.
No specific date has yet been set for the trial which, says The Local, is expected to for up to six days.
Meanwhile, “We all did it for the monks in Burma,” says another Facebook Group, going on, “Now it’s time to do it for the pirates in the bay! Therefore, I do hereby proclaim friday February 8, 2008 to be Wear yellow for sharing day, and urge the appropriate recognition hereof!”
You can post your pix, too.
“I wear yellow for sharing, and my to the brim filled iPatch,” says Mikael Grön (right) in the group site’s pin-up area.
There were 25 images on view whern we checked it out at 6:16 am Pacific.
Stay tuned —- and wear yellow for sharing 
Also See:
p2pnet – Big Music price fixing saga, June 27, 2004
The Local – Music-Industry Initiative Comes Under U.S. Scrutiny, February 7, 2008
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