"Judicial Scandal" In Pirate Bay Case

dr_d_19 writes "Swedish media are reporting that Jim Keyzer, one of the police officers involved in investigating the Pirate Bay case, began working for Warner Bros. a few months after the investigation was finished. Peter Sunde, one of the men behind TPB, calls this a 'Judicial Scandal.' Quoting from TheLocal article: 'If the police officer is found to have entered into discussions with Warner Brothers before the end of the investigation, which took a year and a half to complete, it is possible that the prosecution will have to scrap its findings and start again.'"

Comments

Re:Makes sense

[Anonymous Coward]

The problem is if he was given the offer during the investigation. That would most likely be considered a bribe, or at the very least conflict of interests under Swedish law, and hence it could trash the entire trial.

Re:Makes sense

[morgan_greywolf]

If he did a good job finding or uncovering stuff, why wouldn't they want to hire him after its over?

Okay, let's change the circumstances and see if you still think so nonchalantly about this.

Your [insert loved one here] gets accused of fraud by [insert evil corporation here]. They seize your [loved one]'s possessions and spead viscious lies all over the media and the internet about your [loved one]. Right after the investigation is over and your [loved one] is absolved in court (but maybe not in the court of public opinion), one of the investigating officers goes to work for [evil corporation].

Different story? Not really.

Conflicts of interests

[Marcion]

A new multi-national nobility (/mafia) who could fit into the average conference venue, are trying to obtain the wealth and power of the whole world. To do this they are willing subvert all governmental and non-governmental institutions into following the cause of this new monarchy.

The particular aim is to stop any competition or checks and balances that might restrain the growth of their power. Conflicts of interests and corruption don't matter to them, they have their own values and own replacement values over the traditional Judeo-Christian values that built the modern world.

So a police follows old media companies rather than the good of society. To him he feels no shame because he does not believe in democracy, he believes in "Intellectual Property", a doctrine not unlike the divine right of kings. Like Tudor monarchs gave out monopolies to the nobility and enforced them with the sword, so does the new nobility.

If we really lived in a democracy, then filesharing would be legal, because more people fileshare than vote for the government.

Re:Conflicts of interests

[morgan_greywolf]

they have their own values and own replacement values over the traditional Judeo-Christian values that built the modern world.

Really? Think so, huh?

In the East, Judeo-Christianity has never had much of an influence on society. The strongest moral and ethical influences in the East come from various forms Buddhism and Hinduism, along with Shinto and other Eastern philosophies.

In the West, most of what some might call "Christian values" or "Christian ethics" actually have their roots in Greco-Roman pagan thought. St. Augustine, Sir Thomas More, and many other shapers of modern 'Christian values' were all essentially platonists (or more precisely, neoplatonists) In fact, one could argue that there is really no such thing as 'Judeo-Christian values' and that even many of the moralistic concepts of Judaism came straight out of another conetmporary religion, Zorastrianism.

Oh, well, mod me off topic.

Re:Makes sense

[What Would NPH Do]

So you think it's proper that during an investigation that an officer is applying for jobs with one of the interested parties? That doesn't even remotely strike you as having any conflict of interest?

Re:Two suspicious stories about Warner in one day?

[laiquendi]

Where are the FBI RICO investigators when you need them?

They've recently accepted new jobs at Time-Warner.