You can also follow the trial through a number of different TPB channels, all being aggregated on the site (Spectacle + Trial = ) SPECTRIAL. If you want to chat to Anakata, Brokep or anyone else they also seem to be online in #spectrial on EFNet (IRC). Twitter feeds can also be found on SPECTRIAL, or by clicking here.

Anyways… Yesterday and today has been used by the prosecutor, Håkan Roswall, to present his evidence. He’s so mindblowingly boring to listen to so both the defendants, the judge and the lay judges have problems staying awake. The judge actually asked him not to be so slow in order to keeo everyone awake

The real problems started for him this morning after presenting most of the torrents that he wanted to use as evidence to “that they had helped with copyright infringement”. Unfortunately for him, no documentation on which tracker that had really been in use had been recorded (as pointed out by the defendants).

This rendered most of his “Aiding copyright-infringement”-evidence useless. As brokep (one of the TPB guys) summarized on twitter a couple of hours ago:

- reference.

So now the trial has been reduced to a trial on “Enabling the distribution of torrentfiles ‘containing’ copyrighted materials”.

In other words, the prosecutor is actually trying to convict the TPB guys of distributing .torrent files linking to copyrighted information on www.thepiratbay.com. But… since when is linking illegal?

The guys defense lawyer, Per E Samuelson, summarizes:
“This development is amazing – and that this means that the defence has already achieved half their aims”

As brokep says, EPIC WINNING LOL.

More in English from swedish blogger Scaber Nestor here, here and here.