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Judge In Pirate Bay Trial Biased
maglo writes "The judge who handed down the harsh sentence to the four accused in the The Pirate Bay trial was biased, writes Sveriges Radio (Sweden Public Radio): sr.se (swedish). Google translation. The judge is member of two copyright lobby organizations, something he shares with several of the prosecutor attorneys (Monique Wadsted, Henrik Pontén and Peter Danowsky). The organizations in question are Svenska Föreningen för Upphovsrätt (SFU) and Svenska föreningen för industriellt rättsskydd (SFIR)."
Slashdot still fails at UTF8.
FÃIL!!!
I move for a bad court thingie!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Looks like the Swedish court system is rotten. Next thing you know, couple of judges will open a private juvenile detention facility, rule the government detention facility to be inadequate, harshly punish all juveniles appearing before them to long detentions, send them to their own private detention facility, bill the government for millions of dollars, and whoop it up in some Caribbean island. Nah. The Swedes better look up at the American Judicial System (TM), The Best Justice Money Can Buy.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
IANAL/IANAJ..
Aren't Judges supposed to remove themselves from a case if there is a known conflict of interest or an arguable bias? Don't they get in trouble for presiding over cases with this bias?
Maybe someone with a background in law can answer this? Google didn't seem to want to give any definitive answers. Then again, maybe the laws in Sweden are different?
Congratulations on scoring 5 with this.
...if it weren't for you meddling pirates!
he joins lots of organisations so he has another piece of paper to hang on the wall.
I bet THAT was heard a lot in Nuremberg 60 years ago.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
bias or not, I think its interesting that he, possible the only judge in Sweden that is a member of both these organizations got to be the judge in this case.
i-n-t-e-r-e-s-t-i-n-g....Hrm, you have a funny way of spelling "corruption"...
If only I could think of a witty and ironic net NEUTRALITY joke right now, then everyone would like me.
Come on now! How often is Wikipedia really inacPENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
>Then again, maybe the laws in Sweden are different?
Surely not? I thought US law was global?
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
Dammit man, I'm trying to pretend to work here and this sort of thing, making me giggle like a 7 year old schoolboy, is alerting my colleagues to my laziness!
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torrent?
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Henrik Pont©n - Lawyer at Swedish anti-piracy organisation.
I find it funny that a copyright symbol shows up in his name when it fails the notorious great UTF support of slashdot...
Non-Linux Penguins ?
Occam's Razor is that the simplest answer is true,
Occam's Razor says that the explanation of a phenomena should make as few assumptions as possible.
Yadda yadda, Occam's Toothbrush says that the simplest definition is true.
You just got troll'd!
So an American run site funded by American organizations shouldn't be focused on America?
Says the commenter in an article about Sweden.... :)
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
Isn't there some sort of automated, mobility-oriented analogy that could apply here instead?
Sure. Imagine that there is a huge car company with a bad business model going bankrupt that appeals to the government to artificially support them at the expense of the taxpayers ... Oh wait, that's really happening.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
The judge drives like this.
The plaintiff drives like this.
The defendant drives like this.
Because there's just not enough ammunition to get rid of 'em all.
It's because the laws allow it. We just need to get some lobbyists to help us change those laws!
When I write legislators, I don't include hookers, blow, and cold hard cash in my statement.
If you did, maybe they'd listen to your viewpoint!
Bullish Machine Tzar
Don't need ammunition...
Knives are a good idea. Big, fuck-off shiny ones. Ones that look like they could skin a crocodile. Knives are good, because they don't make any noise, and the less noise they make, the more likely we are to use them. Shit 'em right up. Makes it look like we're serious. Guns for show, knives for a pro.