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Pirate Bay Gets a 4,000-Page Complaint
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Swedish prosecutors appear to be close to finally pressing charges against The Pirate Bay, having served them with 4,000 pages of legal papers. While this might appear bad, the administrators have already moved some of the servers out of the country, so Swedish prosecutors can't shut it down, even if they want to. Moreover, the people of Sweden are decidedly on their side, with the Pirate Party, which is sympathetic to TPB's cause, being one of the top ten political parties in the country. Still, this looks like a dirty trick on the part of the prosecutors — like they're dumping all of this on the defendants in the hope that they won't have enough time to sort through it and defend themselves. For comparison, the second-biggest murder case in Sweden required only 1,500 pages."
Don't read any of the complaint.
When they ask you to enter the plea, you say:
"Oh, we thought we were members of the US Congress faced with a piece of legislation. Dont tase me, bro."
Worked for me.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Shouldn't this be posted under 'Ask Slashdot', in order to mobilise the world's best legal minds?
they could have been smart and used recycled iPhone bills for the paper. 3 of them, anyway.
Parlay? *grins*
Sure baby, I'll give you my phone number...in Hex
Send back a 20,000 page vague summary reply.
Murder's a pretty simple issue compared to copyright.
That's true. Most murder cases can be proved in a single 18 minute sitcom slot but the infinite losses caused by PIRATES of Imaginary Property can never be explained so easily outside of soundbites like "pirate" and "thief". These soundbites must be repeated, Shining style, over 4,000 pages of manually typed pages to even begin to understand the nature of the current case.
They shut down napster and I said nothing. Then they killed allofmp3 and I said nothing. Now they have come after thepiratebay and.. Wait! Now they're fucking with my pr0n god dammit!!
I would have just replied "Sorry, we can only read ODF, what us being communist hipppy pirates and all"
Hmm, I'm not sure that they'd want to pay for all the bandwidth to have thousands and thousands of people download a 4000-page document from their web site. That would probably cost a lot of money.
If only there was some way that they could start it out on the internet - say, "seed" it - and then those interested in it could share it amongst themselves, using the "seed" as a guide. I'm sure that would save them some bandwidth costs. If only there was technology to do so, and I could somehow inform TPB of the existence and benefits of this technology.
It doesn't hurt to be nice.
Oh, and speaking of the Pirate Bay investigation, Pirate Bay operator Anakata confessed to this crime under interrogation. The Palme assassination, that is. He was 5 years old at the time. Interrogators were not amused.
Put a cover page on it that says "Harry Potter and the Torrents of Azkaban" by JK Rowling. Run it through a document feeder and post it on The Pirate Bay. Wait about ten to twenty hours, then check Wikipedia's plot synopsis. Problem solved!
Australia has a fishing party. :)
Unfortunately we dont get to hear much from them. They are usually out fishing.
Is there a link to the .torrent?