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Pirate Bay Retrial Denied, Judge Declared Unbiased

Posted by timothy on from the charge-them-USD80k-per-file dept.

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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  1. Link for Transformers 2 movie download needed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please post. thanks.

  2. I can see this happening in the US by e9th · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:I can see this happening in the US by e9th · · Score: 5, Funny

      Mom? Dad? You're both gone now, but I know can hear me, and I just want to thank you so much for giving me what I always wanted, my very own troll.

  3. Re:clarification by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  4. Your Ikea dollars hard at work by masmullin · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is what you get for buying Ikea.

  5. Re:clarification by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    A tip on using space characters on computers:...But if you separate terms by it, it only makes sense, if you put spaces around the slashes.

    A tip on using comma characters...

  6. Re:clarification by Anon1072 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not sure how swedish law works

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