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Half the Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped
eldavojohn writes "Half the charges have been dropped in the second day of the trial against the Pirate Bay. The charges dropped are those relating to 'assisting copyright infringement,' so the remaining charges are simply 'assisting making available.' No information on how this affects the size of the lawsuit or a settlement."
Yea, ye' scruvy IFPI may have girded themselves to face yourn dreaded pirates alone. But pirates and ninjas be allied now!
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
That's not vague or anything.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
"It's a largely technical issue that changes nothing in terms of our compensation claims and has no bearing whatsoever on the main case against The Pirate Bay. In fact it simplifies the prosecutor's case by allowing him to focus on the main issue, which is the making available of copyrighted works," IFPI's legal counsel said.
Here's to having the case simplified to the point it allows the prosecutor to focus on other cases...
Nope, they only support half the theft.
From this point on, everybody needs to stop their illegal torrents when they reach 50%. Thank you.
Seriously, can't we just round up all of the lawyers, executives, and directors and just fucking kill them already?
Unfortunately on the executives and directors part, they will be immediately replaced by middle managers. Middle managers make executives and directors look nice except they don't have any power...
Or at least better screen shots.
If the Pirate Bay wrote a quick op-ed piece about every torrent they linked to, then they would be journalists and thus, protected.
But who's going to have the time to write reviews of so many feature films and their respective encode jobs?
If only they could harness some sort of free labor pool...
One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
...I can't wait for my lawsuit for linking to assisting making available.
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
Here's an excerpt from the BBC article for the benefit of the cynics among us who know the media never gets technical matters right:
BitTorrent is a legal application used by many file-shares to swap content because of the fast and efficient manner it distributes files.
No copyright content is hosted on The Pirate Bay's web servers; instead the site hosts "torrent" links to TV, film and music files held on its users computers.
There may be hope for the world yet :-)
sigs are hazardous to your health
Just a reminder to myself not to post when I can't think straight. Imagine a better topic for the previous post, other than my nick. :)
Yes, your honor, I didn't download all of that software. I specifically avoided downloading the trojan that the packager slipped in.
Case dismissed!
Shit, I'll have you know the author of the article sometimes goes by the name "AXX0".
You are welcome on my lawn.
A screenscraper pointed at the imdb forums, a random number generator, and a thesaurus should do the trick?
Phillip.
Property for sale in Nice, France
"Your Honor, The Engulf and Devour Media Conglomerate, er, I mean, The PEOPLE'S exhibit A:
A Google Screenshot , illustrating how Google facilitates the infringement of copyright and assists in making available these copyrighted files to immoral and unconscionable thieves like THEM!"
(Prosecutor inadvertently points towards jury box. Hilarity Ensues!)
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Except that "making available" was thrown out in U.S. court. If they're convicted of "assisting making available" in Sweden it'll mean that the U.S. is the more liberal country and I don't think Sweden can live with that. No one in the E.U. would talk to them anymore.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
It was mentioned yesterday that the prosecutor claimed to be a computer crimes expert, but that he could not get a powerpoint presentation to operate on his laptop.
That's because using a Powerpoint presentation on someone isn't a computer crime, it's a common assault.
Surely you jest. Bittorrent has a huge number of legit uses - there may be a few pirates about giving it a bad name, but I for one use TPB exclusively for HD documentaries.
Yours truly,
aXXo
So it would go like this:
"This just in, user anonymous coward just posted a torrent [ ref: http://www.thepiratebaytimes.org/AdobeCS4-Windows/.torrent ] of Adobe Creative Suite 4. They were so bold they included a serial generator and an activation crack.
Now, while we at thepiratebaytimes.org do not condone nor encourage piracy, in the interest of investigative journalism we have downloaded the torrent and wish to report that not only are the crack and serial generator fully functional, they do not install any malware on your system.
It is the opinion of the editors at this media outlet that anonymous coward ought to be ashamed for himself by engaging in such willful promotion of copyright infringement. Shame on them, again, for posting the torrent at [ ref: http://www.thepiratebaytimes.org/AdobeCS4-Windows/.torrent ]. If you doubt our integrity and honesty we heartily encourage you to view the source [read: download the evidence] and test it for yourself.
As always, we thank you for reading our news site and will be bringing you the latest news on alleged copyright infringement shortly."
disclaimer for stupid sue-happy ambulance chasers: the links above are totally made up. If by freak chance they happen to link to infringing material, it is by sheer coincidence or the will of the LORD. I made the URL up based on the fake(?) domain referenced in the parent post.
The Christian Right is Neither (Christian nor right). See: Matthew 23, Matthew 25, Ezekiel 16:48-50
Just wait until someone registers thepiratebaytimes.org and puts these torrents there :)
I for one use TPB exclusively for HD documentaries. Yours truly, aXXo
I find your documentaries on modern popular culture intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
Except no one reads the articles.
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
They were fake domains when you posted them. But this is Slashdot, so fifteen seconds later, they because links to taster-domains hosting Goatse and pro-GNAA popups.
UTF-8: There and Back Again
Surely the best way would be to download a torrent from The Pirate Bay in front of the Judge, leave it downloading during the trial (no intervention), and then once it was complete, show that you downloaded a copyrighted piece of material.
While at the same time the sysadmin at the piratebay monitors connections from the courthouse and reroutes the request for the pirated torrent to http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4469310/Rick_Astley_-_Never_gonna_give_you_up.avi.4469310.TPB.torrent