Monday is T Day for The Pirate Bay
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- This coming Monday is T for Trial day for Fredrik Neij (TiAMO), Gottfrid Svartholm (Anakata) Warg, Peter Sunde (Brokep) and businessman Carl Lundström, the people behind Sweden’s The Pirate Bay.
They’re charged with being accessories to breaking copyright law and face fines and/or up to two years in the nick if they’re found guilty in what’s certain to become a courtroom drama (farce?) that’ll last for about two weeks.
“As organizers of the site, the defendants are ‘promoting other people’s infringements of copyright laws,’ said Swedish prosecutor HÃ¥kan Roswall a little more than a year ago when he first surfaced as the man designated to front for the entertainment cartels.
He declined to comment on the case while it’s still ongoing, “but when charges were filed he called for the four to pay damages of 1.2 million kronor ($185,000) to the Swedish state,” says The Local, going on to quote him as saying TPB isn’t, “merely a search engine. It’s an active part of an action that aims at, and also leads to, making copyright protected material available.”
“Premises connected to The Pirate Bay were first raided in 2006,” says the story, adding:
“The site is also facing sizable compensation claims from record companies and the Motion Picture Association of the United States.”
However, “The record companies can go screw themselves,” The Local had Warg saying last March, a sentiment heartily endorsed by literally hundreds of millions of people around the world.
Meanwhile, “in a joint adventure with PiratbyrÃ¥n (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,” said p2pnet, adding:
“And it’ s using Twitter as a primary source of distribution.”
The Local – Pirate Bay trial starts on Monday, February 12, 2009
p2pnet – The Pirate Bay trial live via Twitter, February 12, 2009
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February 13th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
and watch what happens when the corporate makes them lose.
Its like a kevin mitnik on steroids. They do realize that do then not.
February 13th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Don’t be so sure they will get off. Remember the past incident where the US was demanding in secret that they be done something with or Sweden could have faced the pirate rating for the country? I would not at present bet any amount of money that the same influence could have been used again any time within the last year or so in an attempt to ensure the case works out the way interested parties would wish it to.
February 13th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
This will be interesting…
We shall see if justice can truly prevail, or if the legal system is just a puppet for interests of big business. I for one wont hold my breath. After all, one of the chief investigating officers was an employee of the record companies. Can the justice system really ignore the will of the people? we will see…
February 14th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
and and and dont forget the somewhat 20,000,000 people that could testify on TPBs behalf =D
I wish I had a plane ticket to Sweden
February 14th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Viva La Pirat’ Byran
February 16th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
“Can the justice system really ignore the will of the people? we will see⦔
They can but they will then face the terrible consequences.