Archive for February 25th, 2009
A top music industry official has told The Pirate Bay file-sharing trial in Stockholm that online piracy has caused “immense damage” to artists and producers worldwide.
The second week of the Pirate Bay trial continues in Sweden on. Hollywood investigators have testified how easily they obtained copyright material using the BitTorrent tracker. And the prosecutor altered the charges making it easier to convict.
Ireland’s largest ISP won’t block The Pirate Bay — the embattled BitTorrent search engine and tracker — absent a court order, a spokesman said Tuesday.
Tomorrow John Kennedy, the head of Ifpi is in court. We, the Spectrial Crew, have realized that fighting is for pussies. We now want to meet John Kennedy for negotiations about a peace settlement. Without peace, he will lose - as he already knows.
09-02-24
Stockholm, Sweden
Attention: The President/CEO of the Ifpi
Dear Madam (?),
Confidential Business Proposal
Having consulted [...]
Ireland’s largest ISP won’t block The Pirate Bay absent a court order, a spokesman said Tuesday.
Yes, The Pirate Bay’s backers are on trial in a Swedish court and might face two years in a clean, cold Nordic jail cell (perhaps right next to this guy ), but that hasn’t stopped them from writing a book. The book, naturally released on The Pirate Bay, is called [...]