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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.
In Italy pirated software and video CDs and DVDs are still common place. I mean, there are people that are charged with preventing IP piracy, who are actively involved with it. And there are people making money off infringing copyright - the actual pirates.
The last place you get your copyright infringing items is the pirate bay.
This has GOT to be a case of Italy just doing something to make itself seem..ahem...more badass than they are. It makes no sense. Countless numbers of bootleg CD's come out in Italy. I happen to know of a studio album of a "classic" band that not only was the Italian imported CD a bootleg (despite saying it was used with permission), but was also sourced off vinyl and not "complete" What's next? The Chinese suing TPB for cutting in on thier piracy business?
reading your post i immediately thought of many crimes done by stupid USA military against italians. in all those cases the culprit were never estradited to italy.
for reference to those cases, i doesn't remember details but maybe a bit of googling could help...
1) some 20+ year ago some brash stupid topgun flowed their fighter a bit too near some civilian zones, cutting the cable of a chairlift killing some tens of people... cernis case (if i remember correctly)
2) during the last iraqi invasion an italian secret service agent nogotiate to free an italian hostage, when they were on the car to the airport the solder at a roadblock fired a lot on the car killing the agent and another of the passengers. calipary case