Hopes dashed for The Pirate Bay retrial
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Swedish judge Thomas Norström, a member of pro-copyright groups entertainment industry employees, as well as Henrik Pontén, Peter Danowsky and Monique Wadsted belong to, has been cleared of bias in The Pirate Bay case, says Reuters.
The decision dashes demands by TPB’s Carl Lundstrom, Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Fredrik Neij for a retrial.
Norström (left), in charge of The Pirate Bay trial, “is fair and square,” p2pnet posted recently
So (in effect) stated Stockholm District Court, and thus did it argue in its report to the Svea Court of Appeal, which will rule on the issue, said The Local.
But Norström has interests in »»»
Swedish Association of Copyright (SFU) – a discussion forum whose members includeHenrik Pontén (Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau), Monique Wadsted (movie industry lawyer) and Peter Danowsky (IFPI) – the latter is also a member of the board of the association.
Swedish Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (SFIR) – which works for stronger copyright laws.
.SE (The Internet Infrastructure Foundation) - the foundation which oversees the .se name domain and advises on domain name disputes. His colleague at the foundation? Monique Wadsted.
“Every time I accept a case I make an assessment on whether I am part of it or not,” The Local had him stating, adding, “But I have not felt that I am biased because of those commitments.”
Now, “The court has come to the conclusion that none of these circumstances, neither alone nor togehter [sic], means there is doubt on whether the judge was objective,” it said in a statement, according to Reuters.
Lundstrom, Sunde, Svartholm Warg and Neij were each sentenced to a year in jail for alleged copyright infringements, and ordered to pay $3.6 million in compensation.
Making the claims were Warner Bros, MGM, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox Films, Sony BMG, Universal and EMI.
They’d, “sought damages of more than 100 million Swedish crowns ($12.6 million) to compensate for lost revenues,” says the story.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Reuters – Swedish court says Pirate Bay judge not biased, June 25, 2009
p2pnet – Pirate Bay judge Norström ‘unbiased’, June 9, 2009
Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. It’s really easy!
Subscribe to p2pnet.net | | rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss | | Mobile – http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php
Net access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Thomas Norström is condamned to have all his property destroyed.
Sorry. This is fair and squarte too.
June 26th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Try to convince anyone that he’d be welcome back to the Industries social meetings if he had made a verdict against them, yeah right, good joke on us!!!
June 26th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
The Pirate Bay gets screwed again.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:31 am
Unfortunatley the judge who did the review is in some of the same pro copyright groups as the judge who got reviewed. Two wrongs doesn’t make one right.