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Wife of Harried Pirate Bay Witness Gets Buried in Internet Love
treqie writes "During the trial of pirate bay yesterday, a professor (Roger Wallis) took the witness stand. He told the court things that the prosecutors did not want to hear. The prosecutors then tried to discredit both him and his team's work in the area, as well as his title, it was a real spectacle. In the end, the judge asked if he wanted compensation for being there — he replied that he did not want anything, but they could send flowers to his wife. Many listening online heard, and began sending her flowers, from all over the world. As of this submission, the sum is over 40,000 SEK worth of flowers. There's even a Facebook group for it."
Someone might appreciate a link to a sample of his work...
40000 kr SEK = $4446.68 USD = €3501.32 EUR
The compensation mentioned wasn't due to the harassment from the prosecutors' side, but rather due to the Swedish legal principle that anyone testifying in court is entitled to compensation for expenses and loss of income.
Here, let me give you some education:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation
Did you expect no one to click on your link?
You imply a negative correlation (higher postings, lower sales). However, looking at your graph, a positive correlation exists in 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2006... which leaves only a negative correlation in 2003 and 2005. (And both changes from 2002 to 2003 were insignificant, giving you one data point that supports your conclusion).
Furthermore, instead of charting sales in units, you charted sales in dollars. Given that a trivial reading of your source points out the decreasing prices of CDs, and the decrease of new content (11 new CDs in 2007), this seems to make sense. After all, most karaoke is old songs that, once purchased, don't have to be purchased again.
Also, refuting "correlation is not causation" via shouting is pathetic. There are other ways to do so, try one of them.
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That is the address if any one wants to send flowers to her
See here:
http://yodo.se/wallis/
I don't know what the fuck 99% of that site says, but the following near the bottom seems pretty clear! -
"Thanks to all of you who have sent flowers to the Wallis. But enough is enough. With flowers, vases, teddybears and chocolate for over $5000 they allready got more than they can handle."
Of course I'm sure dropping a message or something may be a nice gesture to show your support, that or a cheque for a small amount to not buy an RIAA affiliated music CD with or something ;)
The music industry should start selling flowers - you can't download those for free! Of course, they'll have to make sure the flowers can't produce any seeds.
And taking pictures of flowers would be illegal, and people who make perfume smelling like flowers would have to pay royalties. They would lobby the Dutch government for the illegal tulip growing, and artificially keep the prices of roses extremely high. 1% of the actual revenue of the flower-sale would go the person who grew and nurtured the plant, 2% to the company that shipped it, 3% to the guy who actually sold the flower, and 94% would go to the middle man. After a couple of decennia all the flowers will smell the same, so that you can no longer bear the stink. The flower-tax collection agency will however every year demand that you pay them for the 2 square feet of grass in front of your house, because you might grow flowers in that.
I think I stretched that analogy a bit too far, but I think I'm going in the flower industry. brb business plan
Addresses of dating sites....
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There is even a web page in english, where people can report what they give. Near the bottom of the page is a list of articles from around the world about this. There has even been written a tribute song to him after his testimony, which Wired covered here.
And this court case has really helped the Pirate Party of Sweden. During the last week they have gotten over 1000 new members, which makes them the second-largest opposition party (in member count) in Sweden. Their youth organisation has also grown to become the second-largest political youth organization in Sewden.
A serious point in a not so serious thread. Monsanto is the company that sues farmers for 'seed patent' violation. I'd much rather deal with the *IAA, stand up to em at all and they drop the case. Monsanto will sue you to oblivion.
It's poetry with a beat behind it! And guns! They're like beatniks with automatic weapons.
When I told her they received too many flowers, my girlfriend suggested they give the flowers to a local hospital instead of the neighbors
Well, since the couple in question live in an apartment building for the elderly, giving the flowers to their neighbors is actually not a bad idea at all :)
Pretty much their entire business is built on selling chemicals. A lot of them have been turned into "food simulation" products. You know, shit that seems something like food, but is not food. That or "food which isn't normal food because we fucked with it". Examples include:
Aspartame
Saccharin
Agent Orange
Dioxin and PCBs
rBGH
RoundUp
Genetically modified crops resistant to RoundUp
One-use seeds which produce infertile crops
And pick pretty much any lawsuit world-wide involving scary-ass GM crops
Velociraptor = Distiraptor / Timeraptor