spectrial

It’s a spectacle, for sure.

TorrentFreak comments in english (via BoingBoing):

“EU directive 2000/31/EG says that he who provides an information service is not responsible for the information that is being transferred. In order to be responsible, the service provider must initiate the transfer. But the admins of The Pirate Bay don’t initiate transfers. It’s the users that do and they are physically identifiable people. They call themselves names like King Kong,” Samuelsson told the court.
 

“According to legal procedure, the accusations must be against an individual and there must be a close tie between the perpetrators of a crime and those who are assisting. This tie has not been shown. The prosecutor must show that Carl Lundström personally has interacted with the user King Kong, who may very well be found in the jungles of Cambodia,” the lawyer added.
 

After the King Kong defense the court decided to adjourn the court case, which will continue tomorrow on day 4. Thus far, the trial is ahead of schedule.

Peter said that after today’s proceedings they all went for some pizza, where they met the whole opposing side. He asked if they could pick up the check. “They refused,” he said.”

‘nuf said.

Also, yesterday IFPI’s swedish site got hacked/defaced and was left showing a message telling the prosecutor Håkan Roswall to “Stop lying”. The defacement was signed “The new generation” and gave shouts to the TPB crew.

Is it even necessary to point out how idiotic and counter productive this is? What do they want to gain by hacking their site? Show off how much more technologically adept they are than IFPI? As if that had not already been proved in court, when they had all of their evidence discarded, or in a million other situations. Come on people… Don’t do stuff that’s counter-productive and that might be damaging to the “good guys” and destroying the strong opposition that we got going!

To cite the character Dwight from The Office:

“Every time I’m about to do something, I ask myself,

If the answer is yes, I don’t do it.”

Might be something to keep in mind when your haxor gene starts tingling…