TPB’s Warg in ‘The Student Bay’ probe
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, one of the four men behind The Pirate Bay, is being investigated by Swedish prosecutors, “looking into his role in The Student Bay, says The Local.
Launched alittle more than a year ago, it lets students scan and upload pages of course literature into an archive which is then available for downloading, says story, going on:
While The Student Bay carries a logo almost identical to that of The Pirate Bay and contact information available when the site was launched directed readers to The Pirate Bay, Svartholm-Warg told The Local at the time that he had no knowledge of the site.
“I don’t know anything about it,” he said in March 2008.
The Swedish Association for Educational Writers (SLFF) reported the site to the police in December 2008 claiming it violated copyright law, says the story, continuing the organisation is, “hopeful that the ruling against the men behind The Pirate Bay will add strength to their case against The Student Bay”.
The Local quotes the Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) newspaper as saying the probe is, “now in the hands of two special prosecutors tasked with looking into crimes against Sweden`s copyright laws”.
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The Local – Pirate Bay operator faces new probe, April 20, 2009
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April 20th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
so its ok for teachers to hand out thise course material but its illegal for a student to “hand out” the same material on the interwebs?
April 21st, 2009 at 7:16 am
OH YEA !
as soon as anything is converted to 0’s & 1’s then it becomes questionable!!