The Pirate Bay vs Them: Day Seven
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- With movie industry prosecuting lawyer Monique Wadsted desperately soliciting online help (really, really wishing she hadn’t), it’s Day 6 [read 7] of the trial in which dying entertainment industry dinosausors once again fail to catch The Pirate Bay.
Wadsted made the mistake of appealing to novelist Carina Rydberg (right) for help, who obligingly posted what TorrentFreak describes as a ‘Call to Arms’ on Facebook.
But her stance on file-sharing, “differs dramatically from her Facebook post,” says the story, going on:
“Swedish blogger projO published postings from Carina Rydberg from earlier discussions in the same Facebook group, where she confessed that she was a registered user at The Pirate Bay. So why is she a member there? ‘Because I want to watch movies that can neither be rented anymore nor bought on the Internet. I want to read books that are out of print and will cost you 750 British pounds on eBay. For that reason, I want The Pirate Bay to stay. At the moment, I’m trying to download John Schlesinger’s ‘The Day of the Locust’; it takes time and it’s not even certain I’ll get a copy that is watchable – but at the same time I have no idea how to get the damn flick any another way’ ”
Not only but also, “The Pirate Bay is an invaluable source for content that publishers, record labels and movie studios for some reason can`t or won`t offer. If someone on The Pirate Bay chose to download the book I wrote in 1989 I would have no objection to that. That novel is practically impossible to get hold of and as an author I want to be read.”
And with that as background, TorrentFreak’s enigmax continues to provide excellent detailed coverage in which he reveals the IFPI’s evidence collector, “relies only on screenshots and admits he’s not a BitTorrent expert.”
Furthermore, “the prosecution don’t know where policeman Jim Keyzer is,” says the report.
Jim Keyzer?
“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,” said p2pnet, going on, “The other three members of the 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,” said The Local. But, “The same police officer is scheduled to appear as a witness in the forthcoming Pirate Bay trial.”
However, it seems it doesn’t really matter if they can find him or not because he doesn’t have to testify anyway.
Meanwhile, yesterday (which would have been Day Six) was apparently a rest day, and today’s unilluminating effort lasted a mere two hours, concluding with the news that Tobias Andersson of PiratbyrÃ¥n and John Kennedy of IFPI will be heard tomorrow.
Kennedy’s contribution could be interesting.
Stay tuned.
- The Pirate Bay trial, live and online - Day One
- The Pirate Bay vs Them: Day Two - Distributed Hash Tables
- The Pirate Bay vs Them: Day Three - `Small change`
- The Pirate Bay vs Them: Day Four - Neij`s turn
- The Pirate Bay vs Them: Day Five – TPB advertising deals
wishing she hadn’t – `Call-to-arms` in The Pirate Bay case, February 24, 2009
TorrentFreak – Pirate Bay Prosecution Hires Hypocrite Pirate Author for PR, February 23, 2009
TorrentFreak – Pirate Bay Trial Day 7: Screenshots for Evidence, February 24, 2009
p2pnet – Pirate Bay `ex-cop` scandal heats up, April 21, 2008
The Local – `Judicial scandal` in Pirate Bay case, April 18, 2008
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