Pirate Bay Retrial Denied, Judge Declared Unbiased

bonch writes "A Swedish court has ruled that the judge in the PirateBay trial is unbiased and there will be no retrial. Stockholm District Court defended the judge's membership in copyright organizations as a necessity to 'keep up with developments in the field' and that merely endorsing the idea of copyright law was not grounds for a mistrial. The defendants must now rely on the appeal process, while one defendant has written on his Twitter account that the PirateBay will also be suing Sweden for human rights violations."

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[kdemetter]

Seed please.

I can see this happening in the US

[e9th]

"Judge Bauregard P Burnside today justified his membership in the KKK saying, 'I have to keep up on current civil rights developments.'"

Re:I can see this happening in the US

[e9th]

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Re:clarification

[Anonymous Coward]

poetmatt:

Everyone is quoting this wrong. The only part denied was the one based off the bias.

From the Summary:

A Swedish court has ruled that the judge in the PirateBay trial is unbiased and there will be no retrial

poetmatt:

The only part denied was the one based off the bias

Summary:

Stockholm District Court defended the judge's membership in copyright organizations as a necessity to 'keep up with developments in the field' and that merely endorsing the idea of copyright law was not grounds for a mistrial

poetmatt:

Also, they still have the appeal

Summary:

The defendants must now rely on the appeal process

Sorry, who is getting this wrong?

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Re:clarification

[Anonymous Coward]

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A tip on using comma characters...

Re:clarification

[Anon1072]

I'm not sure how swedish law works

That's ok. Swedish judges aren't sure either

Re:Justifying piracy

[mdwh2]

I know, it's turned into a place full of straw men.

Re:New Definition of Human Rights

[cliffski]

Very very very bad analogy.

If my neighbour spends his time acting as a local directory enquiries for drug dealers, I am very very keen for that guy to be arrested.
Just because he isn't handling drugs doesn't mean he isn't helping facilitate a drug problem in my area.

Its amazing the crazy bullshit that gets rationalised by people who want to justify pirating music.

Re:New Definition of Human Rights

[cliffski]

why was the trial not fair?
The judge believes in and supprots swedish law. You seriously would prefer a system where judges make up the law on their own?

besides, if TPB are right and what they are doing is legal 'under swedish law' wtf are they worried about?

Re:how did they ever thingk they would win?!

[cliffski]

nope. technology changed and the law was changed to keep up.
Amazingly, 100 years ago it was legal to drive in the Uk whilst talking on a mobile phone.