p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The Harvard team of student lawyers who are determined Joel Tenenbaum won’t face Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA alone aren’t the only ones who want the court proceedings take place in full view of the public.

Ever since it started suing people in 2003, the RIAA has been trying to claim the lawsuits are purely educational and designed to show people who share music with each other online the error of their ways.

So when judge Nancy Gertner said okay to plans to televise arguments online, one would have thought the Big 4 ‘trade’ unit would’ve been overjoyed.

Not so, however. It’s fighting tooth and nail in a bid to make sure that doesn’t happen and the Harvard crew might pick up a few ideas from another team, this time over in Sweden where a similar scenario is starting to unfold, only this time there’s no question the proceedings will be broadcast across the World Wide Web.

Backed by Bambuser.com, Bloggy.se and Riksinternet.se, in a joint adventure with Piratbyrån (The Bureau of Piracy), BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay is going full out to ensure the forthcoming trial between it and the corporate entertainment cartels gets full coverage.

And it’ s using Twitter as a primary source of distribution.

“The trial follows a police investigation that took two years to complete,” TorrentFreak points out. “The police reported its findings in 4,000 pages of legal paperwork and starting February 16th, it will be tested in court.”

That’s only four days away and TPB has launched a true P2P online media coverage campaign under the title Spectrial.

It says »»»

We also need your help translating the news covering the Spectrial. The main reporting will be through Twitter-feeds. This is some of the ways the translation can be done:

* Lots of press and bloggers are going to cover the trial live from the courtroom. There will also be live audiostreams available, both in swedish and translated live to english. All links to important sources will be published at the Feedroll page. If you think we`ve missed a source or link, please let us know!

* If you`re reporting in Swedish, post your info to the group #spectrial at the Swedish microblogsystem Bloggy.se (if you`re swedish and not a member yet, plz do!)

* If you`re translating from Swedish to English, or any other language, follow the feed from Bloggy.se, blogs and the news reports. Translate the info to English (if its to much, post a link, maybe run through Google Translate!) and post it to our Twitterfeed #spectrial by adding the word #spectrial last to your tweet. Local feeds may be used, of course, such as #spectrial-es for spanish, or #spectrial-de for german.

* The feeds from Bloggy and Twitter will be published continuously at our main page. Use the feeds to make your own reporting and followups, to your friends, blogs and internets.

* All coordination surrounding the reporting and translation will be handled at IRC, in our dedicated channel #trial-translate at EFnet. We also have a dedicated media channel called #tpb-media at EFnet for you bloggers and news agencies. The channels are not a place for general discussion about The Pirate Bay, so please respect the operators.

Definitely stay tuned.

Harvard team of student lawyers – RIAA goes after Harvard prof Charles Nesson, January 23, 2009
fighting tooth and nail – RIAA – deathly afraid of being mocked, January 21, 2009
TorrentFreak – Follow The Pirate Bay Trial on Twitter, February 12, 2009

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