Published: 25 Jun 09 14:50 CET | Print version
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Sweden's Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday that the judge in the high profile Pirate Bay case was not biased, as has been claimed by lawyers representing the men behind the popular file sharing site.
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Come on, how much longer can this go on for...
This sends a clear message from the forces of totalitarianism that they are so confident that they cannot be stopped that they can, in full public view, ride roughshod over any last remaining appearance of justice and accountability.
The answer is to stop feeding the Beast, stop watching films at the cinema, stop renting dvd's, stop buying music.
Starve the Beast and feed the Pirate Party.
Its no wonder ther is no real respect for the Swedish politicians outside Sweden...........and that is is a fact.
Even if it wasn't biased trial a large proportion of the population will be sceptical and many will feel further alienated.
Bizarrely this could also act as some sort of justification for people to continue infringing upon copyright laws.
Honesty in the Judicial system is now officially dead. Judges are free to lie, cheat, no big deal.
They remind me of that French Queen of the "let them eat cake" fame.
Sorta thumbing their nose at the system and what it represents because, hey, who can touch them. Besides the RIAA and the MPAA give such nice gifts...
Sweden owned and operated by Corporate America.
Next step in the quest to become the USA of europe: New Health benefits to replace old health benefits- Not enough profit if one actually has to treat sick people...
Although this is one American who really thought the Swedes had a decent government and Judicial system.
I guess when it comes to BIG money all politicians (and judges) are the same.
I was also thinking that such a prosecution needs to come to court to have all the laws tested. I heard that ISPs are under a legal obligation to protect the privacy data of its customers, seemingly in contradiction to the new obligation to reveal information about downloaders. I wonder if the Pirate Party would get involved in such a case.
The obvious corruption on display here will only further put distance between the majority masses and the elite, which we all know how that works out in the end...
this post isn't about the filesharing argument, it's about a judge who has a clear conflict of interest presiding and making judgement over the case.
It's clearly wrong and as other posters have said, it shares the same qualities as a banana republic and kangaroo court, it makes an absolute mockery of the concept of justice.
Slightly off topic, I cancelled my cable TV subscriptions (propaganda is supposed to be free), and the feeling of empowerment is fantastic (for such a simple and individually insignificant action). The other upside is the money saved and now I have a life outside the sofa!
Starve the Beast and feel better!
The swedish pirates fight for our rights too. We hope that pirate bay are the winners at the end.
The music and film industries employ thousand of people world wide. I don't have a problem with any of them making money. The bosses of any corporation make millions of dollars and contribute massively to most countries with tax's and social fees etc. Just because the boss of say Rolls Royce makes millions of dollars doen't mean it's ok to steal a Rolls Royce.
If everyone stole the music there would be massive un-employment in the music and film sectors just so some selfish twats think they have the God given rights to steal.
It bore much the same hallmarks as a show trial in a banana republic,....a sign of which way things are going in Sweden.
When people copy songs for home use nobody stole the music. If you stole my car then I don't have it. If I copy a song from my friend, he still have it. I can do picture of picture of famous artist and it is not a crime. In my country I can record TV show or movie on vhs tape and it is not a crime. I can record a song from radio and it is not a crime, so why download a song from Internet have to be a crime? This is insane.
Good artists makes huge money in advertising, concerts etc. Prohibition of art distribute is one more way of control the people. About un-employment - maybe it is time to get wholesome work instead of working for those bastards leading entertaintement corporations.
Perhaps he should seek asylum in another country?
Anyway, in the future, this sort of piracy may be widely considered as something common and ignorable. It appears to me that, according to the morphing of mainstream cultures and ideals in history, whatever was popular among the youth that was hated by the older generations usually become widely accepted by the older folks a decade or so later, who in turn are outraged by the new "rebellious youth". It all depends on what the kids think, who "are our future". It seems that most teenagers share their files without knowing that it's illegal.