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..............\.............\... - Tooooon, on 04/17/2009, -0/+13Verdict has already been rendered: http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-trial-the-v ...
All these new articles seem to be a wee bit too late - thelastcivilian, on 04/17/2009, -0/+6GUILTY.
via http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/17/sweden.piracy.j ...
"The four defendants -- Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi and Carl Lundstrom, three founders and one patron of The Pirate Bay -- were also ordered to pay 30 million kronor ($3.6 million) in damages to several major media companies including Warner Brothers, Columbia, Twentieth Century Fox, Sony BMG and EMI." - Galaeron, on 04/17/2009, -0/+5I approve
- jsmithers, on 04/17/2009, -0/+3GUILTY! (more's the pity). Headline inaccurate, decision announced: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8003799.stm
As they said from their blog though: "It will not be the final decision, only the first before the losing party will appeal. It will have no real effect on anything besides setting the tone for the debate, so we hope we win of course."
http://thepiratebay.org/blog
I'm not ACTUALLY sure whether a guilty verdict will be a bad thing or not, I'm kind of leaning towards the idea that filesharing and it's supporters will win whatever the outcome - "guilty" will undoubtably mean a huge backlash from filesharing supporters and drive up usage, "innocent" would also give a green light to lots of new filesharers and mark the death knell for anti-piracy insanity.
And can I just add that I agree with the anti-piracy lobby on one thing - content creators DEFINITELY deserve to be rewarded by content consumers. But a.) that's SO not mutually exclusive with filesharing technology and b.) the thing really ripping off content creators right now (as Trent Reznor understands) is the fat cats in the music and movie industries. - zebulonSWE, on 04/17/2009, -0/+3RIAA.&.MPAA - stop messin' around in our country! And Sweden, stop listening to them!
Damn.
/Angry swede - unabsolute, on 04/17/2009, -0/+2So the Prosecutors claim TPB facilitates the sharing of illegal media? Wouldn't that mean that Microsoft facilitates the illegal storage, burning and transfer of illegal material?
- garethjax, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1ahrrr, poor matey! :(
- humanerror, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1http://thepiratebay.org/special/2009epicwinanyhow. ...
Press conference being broadcast live now. - neio, on 04/17/2009, -1/+2Dammit, well, at least they are going to get paid to be in prison.
- HopeForTomorrow, on 04/17/2009, -1/+2Jesus Christ, 3 pirate bay articles in the front page in the past hour.
- wisedude, on 04/17/2009, -2/+1What time EST is the verdict being rendered? Is Sweden ahead of us?
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