Archive for February, 2009
People who don’t speak Swedish are missing almost all the interest of the Pirate Bay trial, which is supplied by the frankly unsavoury nature of the defendants. The money man, Carl Lundström, on whose servers The Pirate Bay was housed, is straight out of the crime novels of Stieg Larsson. He inherited a fortune built [...]
Once upon a time, a cop was in charge of the investigation against The Pirate Bay. His name was Jim Keyzer.
During the investigation he threatened us and our crew, showed up in the middle of the night for off-the-record-questionings, called us names and refused to listen to our arguments. Suddenly, he disappeared. No one really [...]
The Pirate Bay trial continues into its second full week, and the drama continues.
Today, Peter of The Pirate Bay, used some time to educate the judge and the lawmen in how Bittorrent _really_ works. This was a quite important move, since the procecutor and the lawyers of Ifpi and MPA still are repeating their mantra: “The Pirate Bay is the only source for downloadable files on the internet, [...]
A music executive testifying at the Pirate Bay trial in Stockholm takes the heat for suggesting that all music tracks people unlawfully downloaded would have been purchased had it not been for the notorious BitTorrent site.
And the strange silence of the Freetards The trial of the Pirate Bay operators in Sweden has generated huge amounts of media coverage. But one of the most interesting things about Pirate Bay hasn’t got a mention.…
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4741944/powr.broccoli-kopimi
Thanks to the efficiant internets community we now, one day after the swedish release of our book “MAckt, broccoli och KOPIMI”, have an english translated version out for all of you really nice people.
The title now is “POwr, broccoli and KOPIMI”, and in the torrent you also get all the work files so you can [...]
Three prosecution witnesses present evidence, if screenshots are evidence The Pirate Bay trial had a long weekend off and then a 1pm start today, which was the prosecution’s first Talk Like A Witness Day. There were three scheduled – Magnus Mårtensson, Anders Nilsson, John Stenmark – and the timetable allocated them an hour each. [...]
The music industry has lost more than 30 percent in sales since 2001 because of illegal downloading, a top industry official said Wednesday, giving evidence in a Swedish trial. John Kennedy, the head of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, told the Stockholm District Court that Swedish site The Pirate Bay had become “the [...]
(By LOUISE NORDSTROM, Associated Press Writer) The music industry has lost more than 30 percent in sales since 2001 because of illegal downloading, a top industry official said Wednesday, giving evidence in a Swedish trial. John Kennedy, the head of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, told the Stockholm District Court that Swedish site [...]