February 4, 2012
Published: 23 Apr 09 08:53 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
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A lawyer representing one of the men convicted in the Pirate Bay trial has called for a retrial after reports that the judge was a member of the same copyright protection organisations as several of the main entertainment industry representatives.
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Re-trial!
Perhaps for the re-trial we can find a 'hacker judge', just so we get some sense of balance in this.
(obs: I do NOT use PirateBay or any other such systems).
What's more, many people must have been aware of this in advance but chose to keep quiet. Like the previous poster, I'm against piracy - but I'm even more opposed to corruption in the judiciary.
Why doesnt the industry use the spotify idea and platform to distribute content or you internet license like your Tv and everything downloaded if free.
The case should be dismissed and TPB awarded damages.
And given a parade.
Or something.
Some Swedish people claim perfection when actually, they are not near it. This is just one of the cases and a lot are left unresolved.
TPB= fight the good fight guys (email me with any free PR goodies)
acooperfan AT hotmail.co.uk
Large production companies are now days redundant. I could release my own album/movie/book from my desktop computer if I wanted and receive the majority of the profits if I didn't have to battle the fat that is a market saturating media machine like Universal
I am laughing at the slow demise of the former elites. Muhuahahah
a) the industry won with such a poor case, and
b) the verdict was leaked before the judgement made
...very hard now not to think that the decision was already agreed between prosecution and judge before the case started.
@RoyceD - sure, you could release and take the majority of profits yourself, but how would you feel when your stuff was shared without you getting any of the profit?
lol................... pirated verdict.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqPdfZLgIJI
another reason why higher court mostly agree with lower court is because they dont want to slap the lower courts by saying NO you did wrong. and you know how Swedes are "very conservative" people on the face of earth
Freedoms and liberties in this country have turned a new corner.
In this case,being an 'accessory' is connected to the persons who download pirated data.
A judge,who is associated with the plaintifs,is - by definition therefore, also an accessory to the plaintifs. In this example such a judge should have disqualified himself from trying the case.
I do NOT seek to defend anyone - pirate facilitators or the 'owners' of copywright material. I am simply examining the contradictions that have compromised the law. Neither plaintif nor defendant should be connected in any manner to a truly impartial judge.