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Pirate Bay Gets a 4,000-Page Complaint

Posted by kdawson on from the ianal-but-that's-a-lot dept.

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."

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  1. hmmm by ILuvRamen · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    as a speedreader, I gotta say that maybe they should find someone who can speedread. It's not to hard at the same time to selectively focus on stuff that's important since obviously in 4000 pages, not all of it is. When you think about it, who has time to write that many pages? It's probably quotes and copy-pastes of other documents. I remember for some court case someone made a document and copied in the entire transcript of a similar case and it was like 500 pages.

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  2. Second-biggest murder case by Foerstner · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just a question...how do you measure murder cases? Number of victims?

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  3. 25 COMMENTS by oldhack · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just thought I sneak in a comment before 25 ceiling.

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  4. What the fucking hell? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can you please unbreak Slashdot? The new comment system is terrible. It takes dozens of clicks to load a full comment tree and then it's slow and unwieldy and won't let me sort in a useful manner.

  5. OpenOffice.org by kramulous · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    2008 will be the year for Linux! You wouldn't write that summary with Word. Even with a Vista capable machine!

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