ThePirateyBay owners in court ... again.

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Pirate Bay Trial: The Hottest Ticket in Stockholm

The much-anticipated criminal trial of The Pirate Bay's operators begins in a Stockholm criminal court on Monday.

The men behind of the notorious BitTorrent tracking service known for pointing the way to pirated software, games, music and movies are accused of contributory copyright infringement and face up to two years in prison each, in addition to fines as high as $180,000.

The defendants are Hans Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström. Prosecutor Hakan Roswall has summarized the charges as "promoting other people's infringements of copyright laws."
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Some interesting defensive arguments included:

He suggested Google is more liable for infringement than The Pirate Bay. That search engine provides millions of direct links to unauthorized copyrighted works, he said.

"If you're going to indict a torrent search engine, in essence, what you are doing is indicting Google. And everybody agrees with the social utility of Google," he said.
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_Caboose_ said:
Lol and they the defence and prosecution met in an Italian restaurant by chance after that :D
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Indeed they did, albeit "ran into each other" would be more accurate - instead of it sounding like a post-court-business-lunch ... full story here.
 
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This will turn out to be interesting.

I say they are not to blame, the ppl downloading and using what they have on offer is to blame.
 
Maplassie said:
This will turn out to be interesting.

I say they are not to blame, the ppl downloading and using what they have on offer is to blame.
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Will you send a gunshop owner to jail for selling non-hunting purpose handguns?

The use of his guns will only result in death. Does that make him an accomplice? Same principal applies to ThePirateBay.
 
Yep, they are flailing, and the arguments are not to bad either.

They did put the network / links together, so would ThePirateBay actually have existed if they didn't?

Exactly.
 
Okay this is a very serious issue and I can post a very detailed response, but right now I'm laughing so hard that all I can say is this:

libertarian cyber-hippy
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Oh my fucking god, that is hilarious. Cyber-hippies are bad, but libertarian cyber-hippies...whew.
 
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