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Peter Sunde himself has mixed feelings about TPB AFK. In the end, he's not very happy with it...

On the one hand, the movie is great in terms of photography, editing, sound. The experience the viewer gets of the movie is kind of like a thriller. But on the other hand, it’s not my view of the things that actually happened during this period.

The film maker, Simon, who I consider a good friend, and I have different views of what the movie should be. It’s his film though so he makes all the shots. There are lots of scenes in the movie that are well edited to be something different than they are. This is all part of making a movie, drama is needed. I’m not happy with all of them, and I don’t like the dark and gloomy view that Simon has of the past years. The editor (whom I’ve never met, so he has no real idea of who I am, just what has been filmed of me) has cut the movie in a way that is very different from what I’ve experienced.

Read Peter's complete review on his blog.

Could be true. However there are quite a few other stories out there from other sources that appear to corroborate the same... (.e.g here, translated in English) ...Sweden has a crazy, politically stacked Justice system.

There is trouble with nämndemän from the political party Sverigedemokraterna. They are often previously convicted (usually for violent behaviour (mostly domestic violence, but often also from being involved in brawls and robberies; the Sverigedemokraterna themselves only want to talk about nämndemän that have been convicted of hate speech and make them seem like martyrs in a strife for "truth", but all those Sverigedomokraterna politicial nämndemän (sans one) have also been convicted for a lot of other crimes), don't follow the letter of the law when acting as nämndemän and judge people different for the same crimes depending on what cultural and ethnic background they have.

In summary: They are ass-hats with no respect for the laws of Sweden, equality in front of law or democracy.

Unfortunately, they received a lot of votes in some local political elections. The nämndemän that acts like lay judges in lower level courts of the Swedish justice systems is mostly appointed proportionally from the different political parties based on local elections.

Most Swedish news media is afraid to report that it is just nämndemän from one political party that cause this problem (and the rest of most of the few other troublesome nämndemän is also from similar Neo-Nazi parties, taht have scored high enough in local elections). Sverigedemokraterna love being attacked by media, that give them opportunity to point out how bad they are treated by the establishment (but of course not how badly they treat almost everybody else, and that is really fucking, ridiculously badly) and it makes it possible for them to portrait themselves as martyrs.

This problem have been detected. A majority of the other nämndemän is very involved in rectifying the problem by reporting any misuse of power in the court, and different strategies for reforming the nämndemanna system is being evaluated. Also, the problem haven't spread to higher courts yet, just local low level courts.

Could be true. However there are quite a few other stories out there from other sources that appear to corroborate the same... (.e.g here, translated in English) ...Sweden has a crazy, politically stacked Justice system.

according to this blog all you have to do is put a dick as your profile picture, and they do the work for you... no more photos tagged, everything gone. pretty simple.

That would be *such* an awesome farewell to all of my ex-girlfriends too...

according to this blog all you have to do is put a dick as your profile picture, and they do the work for you... no more photos tagged, everything gone. pretty simple.

I think that has to do with his work to try and avoid the Swedish mass surveilance: http://blog.brokep.com/2010/01/09/fra-to-hell/

There was an article a few weeks ago about swedish artist Magnus Uggla, who apparently is mad as hell about Spotify and isn't going to take it any longer.

Magnus Ugglas anger wasent against Spotify, as the media wanted it to be. If you read Ugglas blogpost (swedish) you'll understand that he's mad at his record label: Sony.
As you say, Uggla thinks Sony lets Spotify get their artist on the cheap.

Uggla himself writes in his blog (translated from swedish):

And one thing's for sure. I would rather get raped by Pirate Bay then assfucked by Hasse Breitholtz and Sony Music and will therefore remove my music from Spotify waiting for a honest internetservice.

But honestly, Ugglas problem isnt that Sony lets Spotify play his songs cheap. His problem is that there isnt anyone who wants to listen to them.
As Peter Sunde (from The Pirate Bay crew) wrote (swedish) to Uggla:

There isnt even 15 persons who share your music on the largest filesharing site in the world. That's a more important indicator to your financial situation (and popularity) then how much every played song on Spotify give you

One more cold hard fact. Tomas NorstrÃm, the judge in question, was not merely a member of several recording industry groups, he in fact sat on the board of the Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property.

So, he wasn't just a party interested in keeping involved with industry law, he was in charge of an advocacy group. I think that would put him solidly in the prejudiced and/or biased category.

Let's look at it another way. The head of the MPAA happens to be a judge, and he is the overseeing YOUR trial on illegal file sharing, or whatever. After the trial is over, and you are given a year of jail time, it is revealed that not only does he belong to the MPAA the BSA, and the RIAA, he is in fact one of the controlling parties of the MPAA.

And the group of judges who were to decide whether or not he was biased also belonged to the MPAA and the RIAA.

Does it sound like a conspiracy theory?

The pirate bay blog says this:

Oh. And it should also be noted that Anders Eka, the guy with the final decision that is not appealable, heads in an immaterial rights organisation as Peter Drowsky and Monique Wasted, the MPAA and Ifpi-lawyers. However, he does not feel that working together with the lawyers that enjoys this decision the most has an impact on his decision or that he might be biased himself...

Sure, but that is Pirate Bay, and whatever they say is suspect. Well, to quote from this site:

Monique Wasted, Peter Danowsky, Jan Rosén (assistant to Monique in the TPB-case and also the chairman for the swedish organisation for copyright), Daniel Westman (another one involved in the same sphere of Jan Rosén and Monique Wasted) - and of course, Anders Eka.

People love to shout "conspiracy theory" as a way to discredit something. And that can be true. However, there have been some conspiracy theories that turned out to be absolutely true.

http://www.cracked.com/article_15974_7-insane-conspiracies-that-actually-happened.html

Some related news:
Peter Sunde, one of the convicted(and appealing) men behind The Pirate Bay is right now at 'Fórum Internacional Software Livre' in Brazil where he among other things got to meet the brazilian president Lula. Here is a picture of the meeting.
Peter Sunde himself talks a bit about it in his blog.

So what now Joe Biden? Time to invade Brazil for fraternizing with the enemy?

Note that the judge B (Anders Eka) deciding if judge A was biased was himself a member of a pro-copyright group. The whole thing is disgusting.

http://blog.brokep.com/2009/05/20/google-is-your-friend/

Here you go: http://blog.brokep.com/2009/02/19/were-winning-stop-hacking-plz/

Of course, as any decent hacker knows, "Stop hacking please" is just a l33t-speak code message for, "Keep up the good work"!

Actually, he wrote "We're winning, stop hacking plz", which is much more funny. He also wrote "EPIC WINNING LOL" on Twitter after the first round in the courtroom. And he's the press spokesperson for TPB, :)

ney, the mateys at the bay do not post stuff like that on the bay, they give it to archive org for the world to see!

Just like the "piratebay should have no place in society" letter that came with their award from organised content back in 2007.

http://www.archive.org/download/PirateBayShouldHaveNoPlaceInSwedenOrTheEuropeanUnion/PirateBayShoudHaveNoPlace.pdf

http://blog.brokep.com/2007/11/20/global-icon-status/

Peter Sunde alias brokep, recently wrote an excellent essay about how TPB has been treated by Swedish media. For those who (like me) can read Swedish, the link is provided here.

I don't have the energy to translate it right now, but if any other Swede would like to, please do. Until that, try the google translation

You can add to that list

http://torrentfreak.com/european-parliament-says-no-to-three-strikes-law-080925/ (URL pretty much tells what's that about)

and

The Pirate Bay's blocking in Italy is apparently overruled after TPB sent in their lawyers.

This is a *very* good day :)

Well why the Fuck isn't that on Slashdot?
Or did I just miss it?

You can add to that list

http://torrentfreak.com/european-parliament-says-no-to-three-strikes-law-080925/ (URL pretty much tells what's that about)

and

The Pirate Bay's blocking in Italy is apparently overruled after TPB sent in their lawyers.

This is a *very* good day :)

The good:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/
- non-language specific programming musings

http://blog.brokep.com/
- The Pirate Bay's brokep's blog

http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/
- interesting furniture hacks

http://www.ladyada.net/rant
- hobby electronics news

http://www.wired.com/rss/commentary/securitymatters.xml
- Bruce Schneier's blog

http://www.thefirsthourblog.com/
- reviewing the first hour of games, handy for people like me who have a 10 minute attention span

http://torrentfreak.com/
- P2P / legal news

The ugly:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/default.stm
http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/
- destroy your faith in humanity, or at least the British

http://seenonslash.com/
- because sometimes -1 is funny

http://icanhascheezburger.com/
http://www.lolcats.com/rss.php
- still funny?

A number of things about the raid are legally questionable. However, there's no requirement in Swedish law that evidence be obtained legally. Evidence is accepted at the judge's discretion.

Please note that according to the blog of one of the founders behind TPB (brokep) most of the pages were either blank or only had paging number printed on them. So it's not 4000 pages of text. Most likely a lot less. Blog here. Sorry, Swedish only.