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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."

7 of 347 comments (clear)

  1. Go Pirate Gay!!!1! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    We support the theft of intellectual property here, right? Fucking Theives.

  2. Re:Ah, I see by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    link spamming piece of shit. no one wants to read your fucking site. this is the 2nd time i have seen your shit posted in an unrelated thread today.

    fuck off and die

  3. Re:Assisting making available by windsurfer619 · · Score: 0, Troll

    There should be a rule on slashdot where your comment must be longer than your sig.

  4. Re:Making Available by steelfood · · Score: -1, Troll

    From TFA:

    No copyright content is hosted on The Pirate Bay's web servers;...

    That's technically false. At the very least, the ASCII art that goes into the nfo and hence the torrent descriptions are protected by copyright. And, the comments are copyright TPB or the owner of the comments, whatever the implicit or explicit TOS is for the site.

    So there is plenty of copyrighted works on TPB, just none that they can be sued over.

    --
    "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
  5. Re:That just made my day.... by cliffski · · Score: -1, Troll

    it makes me feel physically sick that a bunch of Swedish criminal hippies are still pretending there is nothing wrong with distributing other peoples hard work for free, whilst coining it in from advertsiing.

    --
    DRM-free indie games for the PC and Mac: Positech Games
  6. HOORAY! by bonch · · Score: -1, Troll

    Good to hear this news.

    Yes, this news fills me with joy! People who run torrent sites should be lauded as heroes on Slashdot. They should be people we get behind and support when they go to court for running their mass piracy ring. When anyone brings up the artists who are getting ripped off every day by these people, we'll just mindlessly rant about the RIAA or the MPAA some more.

    Remember the Slashdot credo--FUCK artists, and FUCK their rights! PirateBay is our hero!

  7. AWESOME! by bonch · · Score: -1, Troll

    Slashdot's heroes, the Pirate Bay, are gonna get away with it! We deserve to get everything that artists make free of charge. FUCK artists, and FUCK their rights!

    I join my fellow Slashdotters in cheering for this story. People who are ripping artists off are getting away with it. What's not to love?