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Italy May Hold Its Own Pirate Bay Trial
hyanakin writes with an excerpt from TorrentFreak: "Following the Swedish verdict, Italy is now considering starting its own trial against the people involved with The Pirate Bay. This would be the first criminal prosecution against the Pirate Bay 'founders' outside their home country." Funny thing: almost 20 years ago, CD stores in Germany all seemed to be full of bootleg concert CDs pressed in Italy.
What you said is true in theory, only. In practice this government is doing all it can to limit the judiciary power. This power is particularly hated by the premier which had (and still has) many legal problems. Some judges that were investingating about corruptions worth many millions of euros and involving many politicians and possibly the southern italy mafia, were recently removed under the government pressure. Thus, not all the judges are exactly ready to risk their career by running investigations undesired by the government.On the contrary many of them are ready to brown-nose the politicians. If one ADDS to this the fact that mr. Berlusconi is the owner of the bigger MEDIA concentration in Italy (his family owns newspapers and TVs and, being the premier, has a strong control on the state televisions) and has sent his legals against Youtube which is responsible to publish parts of Belusconi's TVs shows, s/he can understand the reasons of this action against Pirate Bay.
the government of italy rarely posed itself directly against the mafia in the last 15-20+ years expecially the various berlusconi's ones
a friend of mine told me on a completely unintended act against mafia that happened during the first Iraqi invasion, when a lot of italian military where on the road of a major Italian city of the south when it was used by the USA as a jump point for the invasion.
with so much military on the streets the lowly mafia agents that usually goes to ask pizzo from the various commercial activity never presented.
the population (or at least the owner of these small business) were so thankfull that he and his fellow soldier were unable to pay for any service in those bar and kiosk...
that's a kind of act that the government could do versus the mafia (or one of his aspects)
the berlusconi's government instead used the military as a show-piece that the government is taking some action during the last summer escalation of raping (at least escalation in the media, doesn't know if it were for real) distributing them in the various major city (of the nord where there are much less if any mafia) to make a work they were not prepared to (role of the various police forces).