A moment for the trial please, it had a sad conclusion… And we’re back! Can’t really let these things have too much of an influence. It was only the lowest instance of the court system, and major mistakes were made. The court should never have accepted the way the prosecution handled the case. New witnesses and evidences were produced from nowhere as if by magic, charges were dropped and rewritten, all during the trial. Evidence put forth by the defendant was ignored in the conclusive documents. Despite how the world could clearly see that our side was winning the case, even without taking sides it was obvious who appeared the stronger, the industry won.
This might not come as a surprise, and really that’s not what’s so strange about the case. What’s strange is the sentence. I’m fine with the charges. I disagree with them, I think they’re completely wrong, but I can see where the prosecution is coming from. There’s no doubt that the industry is damaged by some actions that are carried out on the Pirate Bay, but the fact that the ones on trial have nothing to do with these actions is glaringly obvious to me, and had they chosen another name I doubt they would even have been charged. The sentence? One year of jailtime and $3,620,000 in fines. Really, industry? Jailtime? For setting up a filesharing website? You can’t jail someone for telling the world that they’ve built a house in which they can party like crazy and share what they want, that’s insane! Even if the guys at the Bay had been sitting around making hard copies of everything that’s been shared through the Pirate Bay they wouldn’t have been jailed. Does I smell industry funding?
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Get ready for round two guys! We will win this in the end.
Song of the Blog: Drought
Sincerely
Bjørn
