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Half the Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped

Posted by timothy on from the duh-it's-not-a-pirate-submarine dept.

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."

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  1. Only matter of time? by E+IS+mC(Square) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Good to hear this news.

    But From TFA: "What has been shown in court today is that the prosecutor cannot prove that the .torrent files he is using as evidence actually used The Pirate Bay's tracker. Many of the screenshots being used clearly state there is no connection to the tracker. Additionally, prosecutor HÃ¥kan Roswall didn't adequately explain the function of DHT which allows for so called "trackerless" torrents."

    So, it is only matter of time they are back later with stronger evidences?

  2. The accual .torrent-files by EyyySvenne · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The accual .torrent-files where not even submitted as evidence, only screenshots from the client. The prosecutor assumed that the only source of peers is a single tracker when it in reality can be multiple trackers, DHT, Peer Exchange, Local Peer Discovery and adding them manually. Note that the defence haven't even started to make it's case yet, this is just from the prosecutors own mistakes.

  3. The reason for dropping by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The reason for dropping the charges can be found between the lines of this article. Basically, TPB nicely informed the prosecution that there way no way in hell that they could prove which copyright infringements originated from the trackers provided by TPB (as opposed to, say, mininova or slotorrent).

    While I love this outcome (and the fact that it took TPB less than 24 hours to uproot the more serious charges brought against them), I'm not too happy about this approach. They're winning on technicalities, while I would have liked for them to win on principle.

    Anyway, I'll keep dreaming.

  4. Re:Making Available by somenickname · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Strange. At the end of the article, the BBC actually presented information that made it seem as if they actually understood what The Pirate Bay does. Either the author of the article asked his IT guys to explain it to him or he knows what it does because he uses it to download copyrighted material. Either scenario is amusing I suppose.

  5. The prosecutor didn't prepare his case by Lagurz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The prosecutor in this case (Hakan Roswall) is Sweden's most experienced and knowledgeable prosecutor when it comes to cases involving Intellectual property rights. It looks like he didn't do his homework before entering the court house. He has been working on this case for more than three years and after one day in court he realized that TPB does not copy any files at all.

    I think he felt a little embarrassed after this.