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Pirate Bay Defendant Aims For Sweden's Supreme Court
justice4all writes with this news from eWeek Europe:"One of the defendants in the Pirate Bay trial says he will take his appeal bid to the Supreme Court in Sweden. One of the defendants of the Pirate Bay trial, the Swedish tech magnate Carl Lundstrom, has confirmed he will appeal the sentence imposed by a Swedish appeal court, by taking his case to Sweden's Supreme Court. Lundstrom, along with his three co-defendants – Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, and Fredrik Neij – were found guilty of being accessories to copyright violations by a Swedish court back in April 2009. The copyright test case against The Pirate Bay was brought by the Swedish subsidiaries of leading music and film companies, including Sony BMG, Universal Music, EMI and Warner Brothers."
I bet it's lawyers who love to hate piracy more than anybody else.
Lawyers love anybody who has a crusade and deep pockets. They're the only winners in any legal dispute.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
The world will go on without not-for-profit average joes buying every movie that shows up. Corporate media is not important to the human race as a whole.
If hearing a song without the proper license to do so gives a corporation the right to take someone's liberty and pursuit of happiness, this is a crappy set of laws to live under.
They're the same system. Seems like the US makes up their laws as they go along, and the US makes up Sweden's laws as they go along.
Not like I can talk though, as an Australian.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
Actually, helping a murderer can make you an accessory to the crime if you know what his intent is (over here, at least. Not sure what the laws are like in other countries). If someone asks you "I bought this firearm, can you train me in using it safely?", and then goes off to shoot someone after you trained him, you can hardly be blamed. But what if someone drops by and states: "Those kids in the park have disturbed my rest for the last time! Can you explain how this shotgun works, and then help me saw off half the barrel?".
The latter case would be hard to sufficiently prove beyond doubt, if they'd charge you in court. In case of the Pirate Bay however, it should be abundantly clear to the owners that their tracker is used for sharing copyrighted materials, and little else. There's probably several laws they could be charged under. Aiding and abetting, membership of a criminal organisation, etc... Again, not sure what the laws are like in Sweden, but many countries have laws against this sort of thing. With penalties resulting in a cease and desist against the site at the least, fines, damages and perhaps even jail time.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
No the really wierd part was that he was convicted for accessery to accessery to copyright infringement.
Note that noone was convicted for copyright infringement. The others was convicted for accessory for copyright infringement and he was convicted for helping them.
Most think that the swedish supreme court will hear this case.
Just saying it like it are.
I don't think they're acting out of some kind of ignorance of how their service is being used - quite the opposite, I think this is people with an agenda (to bring down copyright) providing a service that is aimed at advancing that agenda. I might not agree with their approach but I'm not averse to the thinking behind it. Having said all of that, I think it's pretty clear that they've not committed any crime and that the law is being twisted by those with their own agenda to try and make them criminals. What they offered was realistically little different to what Google or Bing or Yahoo already do, albeit with a target user base with a more specific interest. I have zero issue with private individuals acting within the law to undermine what many people see as an unjust set of rules, I'm a little more wary of big corporations acting in collusion with government to twist laws to take said individuals down (it wouldn't even be so bad if they outright enacted laws to make their actions illegal, at least then we could hold them to account and ask why Google and MS have had a free pass, but this whole thing stinks of corruption at the highest level).