p2pnet - rss feed: Pirate Bay ‘ex-cop’ scandal heats up
p2pnet news | P2P:- Swedish defence lawyer Peter Althin says he’ll be taking a very close look at whether or not ex-cop Jim Keyzer’s employment with Warner Bros could have a bearing on the lawsuit launched against The Pirate Bay.
The other three members of rhe Big 4 organised music gang are EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG and together, they reckon TPB owes them $2.5 million.
Keyzer started work for Warner, “several months after the preliminary investigation was completed,” says The Local.
“The same police officer is scheduled to appear as a witness in the forthcoming Pirate Bay trial.”
“If it [Keyzer’s employmkent with Warner] was under consideration at the time of the investigation then it is a scandal,” Althin told Sydsvenskan, says the story, going on >>>
Althin is representing Peter Sunde, one of four men charged charged with being an accessory to breaking copyright law.
“This is a judicial scandal. Talk about a conflict of interests,” Sunde told the newspaper.
If the police officer is found to have entered into discussions with Warner Brothers before the end of the investigation, which took a year and a half to complete, it is possible that the prosecution will have to scrap its findings and start again, said Althin.
As p2pnet pointed in last week’s post in this potential scandal, the RIAA and MPAA have been hiring ex-cops for years.
Althin is a Swedish Christian Democrat MP.
$2.5 million - Cough up $2.5 mil, Big 4 labels tell The Pirate Bay, March 31, 2008
The Local - ‘Judicial scandal’ in Pirate Bay case, April 18, 2008
p2pnet - The Pirate Bay ‘police’ witness farce, April 18, 2008
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April 21st, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Won’t matter.
they’ll just lie.
Just like they do here.
Lie to the judge, judge says okee.