torrentfreak.com — It’s Day 5 at The Pirate Bay trial. Will colorful site spokesman Peter Sunde stand up to the pressure? There seems little doubt of that, but the Prosecution are trying to make it as difficult as possible by introducing yet more uncleared evidence. Peter demands of the Prosecution, “Is this a political trial?”
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snatchmstrFeb 20, 2009
I'm hoping for 20 years too. 20 more years of open sharing!
flagcapperFeb 20, 2009
It's amazing how the prosecutors are trying to act technologically savvy and are failing miserably. Did he get "IRL" off facebook or something?
Closed AccountFeb 21, 2009
To me, they may make money, lots of it, by putting ads on their page. It's still not stealing. It's not depriving from others. It's not making money from torrents, legal or illegal. The money is from... ads.The ads produce money for the amount of visitors, and in fact has nothing to do with the legal (or not) nature of the site.What this case should be about is wetter linking to torrent-files is legal or not. Wetter torrent-files are considered copyright-breaching, assisting copyright breach or just text documents. I think it is the second, which is not illegal, not even in the US, but places the responsibility with the end-user.
pwdrskierFeb 21, 2009
stop saying that like someone does every time one of these articles is posted just to get diggs
athanasios7592Feb 23, 2009
seriously, you need to calm down, I don't give a damn if they "care about us" I don't give a damn that all they care about is money, because most people using torrents know enough about the internet NOT to click on ads, as zeabu said, they make money from the number of visits, not from people clicking on them, it is an ideological battle for the simple fact that just because they just point to the downloads, it's like a man asking you where the bank is, he robs it and you're arrested for "assisting" him. They don't need to care, because the nature of the trial is ideological.
anthropodeusFeb 27, 2009
actually i discovered that the problem was not that the site was down but that my university blocks me from visiting all sites that have anything to do with torrents. but that's ok tho, cuz i have proxy-disabling software. you can't stop the internets, as TPB knows very well.