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The Pirate Bay Is Making a "Spectrial" of It

Posted by kdawson on from the step-right-up dept.

IDOXLR8 writes "The Harvard Law students defending accused file-swapper Joel Tenenbaum are doing their best to turn his upcoming trial into a media event. But when it comes to pure spectacle, they have nothing on The Pirate Bay. TPB is referring to the event as a 'spectrial,' a cross between a spectacle and a trial. They have set up a site where you can track their current location, complete with journal entries. The trial begins next Monday and features a live audio feed and Twitter translations."

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  1. Put some advertising by crazybit · · Score: 4, Funny

    on all that media coverage and use that money to pay some of the lawyers fees.

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    1. Re:Put some advertising by blind+biker · · Score: 2, Funny

      Put some advertising on all that media coverage and use that money to pay some of the lawyers fees.

      I'd positively enjoy seeing product placements in a trial!

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  2. What the? by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 4, Funny

    Learn to read. The law students are defending Jaul Tennenbaum. NOT the piratebay. It is there in plain english. Granted that might be hard for an american to read but still.

    And the law students are just assisting, in law there is an awful lot of hard work and students are the best for this provided you beat them enough. They are doing it under the guidance of their proffesor who is a qualified lawyer.

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    1. Re:What the? by interkin3tic · · Score: 3, Funny

      Learn to read. The law students are defending Jaul Tennenbaum. NOT the piratebay. It is there in plain english. Granted that might be hard for an american to read but still.

      Apparently not as hard as capitalization, or spelling "Joel" correctly ;-)

  3. Re:If Harvard law students are defending TPB by interkin3tic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then they are going to be prosecuted themselves for practicing law without a license.

    Practicing law? No, you misunderstand, they're PHYSICALLY defending him from the RIAA. The RIAA decided legal proceedings weren't giving them the results they'd like (IE beheading people who are "stealing music" and putting those heads on a pike) so they started hiring ninjas.

  4. Re:If Harvard law students are defending TPB by KenMcM · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hire ninjas? No. They paid some of their bad-ass artists from the ghetto a reasonable portion of their revenue.

  5. Re:I hope P.B. win this trial by wisty · · Score: 4, Funny

    And if that fails, they will come back with an armada of gunships, a kraken, an undead monkey, and the accursed souls who were lost at sea. These guys just won't give up.

  6. hope they get conficted.. by timmarhy · · Score: 2, Funny

    .. for making up such a stupid word as "spectrial". doesn't the web have enough retarded pretend words?

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  7. Re:I hope P.B. win this trial by pipatron · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://www.learningmovabletype.com/files/cute-kitten-picture-in-the-grass-thumb.jpg

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