[Androgeos Exeunt]

This is my take on the whole issue in short:

[Charismatic]

I think they should loosen up hold. I personally think it should be a choice. The internet is made for sharing data and information. I personally pay for and buy dam near most all of my CD albums. I take pride in that. But some things you just cant get online or via ebay, so get it where you can.

[kode]

You might have heard of the king kong defense by now.

While it may be a bit too early to celebrate, as they aren't out of the woods just yet, but it's certainly looking brighter for the defendants.

This is my take on the whole issue in short:

To be honest, I didn't even see that you had a picture posted before I quoted you, as opera doesn't show any red Xs when images fail to load. I guess the host you're hotlinking from takes offence to such practice for some reason.

[karajorma]

To be honest, I didn't even see that you had a picture posted before I quoted you, as opera doesn't show any red Xs when images fail to load. I guess the host you're hotlinking from takes offence to such practice for some reason.

He should consider himself lucky. Dekker made the same mistake with a site that took an even dimmer view of it and very nearly got permabanned as a result.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Eep...I've hotlinked this twice already! Should I remove them?

And I noticed that you've changed your title again, karajorma.

[Charismatic]

And I noticed that you've changed your title again, karajorma.

For all those who don't read Pt 1 sized text. Here ya go! Into the light with you!

[Rick James]

Day 5 of the trial concluded recently.

The plaintiffs really are just embarrassing themselves something fierce. One of the plaintiffs' representatives broke legal procedure by revealing "evidence" which had not been revealed pre-trial:

After the break, it was IFPI’s Peter Danowsky turn to start questioning Peter, beginning with his education. Peter says he dropped out of school but later learned English and computer programming from the Internet. Danowsky then turned his attention to ad-company Random Media, again referring to emails from TPB.

Then, in a repeat of yesterday’s performance, the Prosecution started again to introduce more evidence that had not been cleared pre-trial. Danowsky continued to present new evidence in the form of some newspaper articles to try to contradict what Peter had said.

According to multiple reports, not only was the defense annoyed at the Prosecution’s unacceptable actions, but the judge was too. The judge reprimanded Danowsky and the defense told him to cut out this American-style trial strategy. The Court then adjourned for 10 minutes to discuss the situation.

Upon restart, the judge said the decision is that any new material the Prosecution is planning to bring up needs to be submitted before the questioning has started, as is proper. The Prosecution then claimed to hand over all their surprise material they were holding and the Court took another break so that Peter could read through everything. This was later confirmed to be 9 new documents.

Waaaaay to fail, Prosecution.

[kode]

Well, yes. The judge sounded quite unhappy (the prosecution seems set on annoying the **** out of him and the lay judges)

Favourtie quote from that debacle semi-out of context (translated, obv.):

Completely wrong, american, trial...

Lundströms hearing was a bit of a ground gaining for the prosecution, however, in my opinion. Anyway, we'll see how it goes next week.

[Dilmah G]

The prosecution does fail. I heard they didn't even know what a .winrar was

[kode]

The prosecution does fail. I heard they didn't even know what a .winrar was

That I didn't hear myself. They did however not know what tar-gzip is.

[kode]

Well, tomorrow's the last day, then we'll probably have to wait a month or two for the verdict. The assertions today was ****ed up, but tomorrow it's the defendants turn.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Am I right to assume that this isn't the first time they've been sued?

[Dilmah G]

Am I right to assume that this isn't the first time they've been sued?

I think they were in the process of it a few years ago, but prosecution didn't have the goods.

[kode]

Am I right to assume that this isn't the first time they've been sued?

You'd be wrong. This is the trial which the raid in 2006 resulted in.

Anyway, verdict will made known April 17.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Ah, okay. It's all related.

I thought it had already passed over.

[kode]

So, today is the big day, and the verdict is released as I'm writing this. According to leaks, the pirate bay lost the trial.



So, yeah, they were found guilty. I imagine news sources will pick up on it soon. 1 year of prison each, apparently. wtf.

[Blue Lion]

Whoopsie

[kode]

Not that this ever was anything more than act I of this spectacle. There'll be an appeal, and then probably another one.

[Rick James]

Indeed. This is just the beginning of something that will last for a hell of a lot longer than just a one-year prison sentence. My gut tells me that the defendants won't even be in prison all that long.

[BlackDove]

This is what happens when you can buy verdicts.

I like the comment on the aftonbladet article.

If you rape someone, you only have to pay 30-40 thousand.