Judge Who Ordered Pirate Bay Censorship Found To Be Corrupt

TheGift73 writes "TorrentFreak reports that 'This week yet another court order was handed down in Europe with the aim of censoring The Pirate Bay. The ruling forbids the Dutch Pirate Party from not only running a direct proxy, but also telling people how to circumvent an earlier court ordered blockade. However, according to Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge, the judge in the case has a history of corruption relating to another file-sharing case he presided over in the Netherlands. The Court of The Hague in the Netherlands has been particularly busy this work with Pirate Bay-related cases.' Falkvinge wrote, '... not only was the plaintiff and judge personally and closely acquainted, the plaintiff in a controversial copyright monopoly case was running a commercial anti-piracy outfit together with the judge in the case. Money was involved. Commercial interest was involved. The judge was, as it appears from this brochure for the quite expensive course, getting money. Shortly after the case. In a directly related matter together with the plaintiff. That makes the judge not only corrupt, but textbook corrupt.'"

Comments

Court Orders Are Too Subtle

[TemperedAlchemist]

Man, it's a good thing these Dutch guys aren't in the US, or else the FBI would storm their houses with swat teams under charges of conspiring with file sharers.

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But then again, nothing says America like a getting bent over and fucked by an agency with your tax dollars.

Vacate?

[Aesculapius]

Does this give the Dutch Pirate Party reasonable grounds to vacate the decision? (IANAL)

Re:Why?

[Sancho]

It's a common excuse. It worked for the Catholic Church, too. "We don't have enough Priests, so instead of excommunicating the ones who diddle little kids, we'll just move them to a new parish."

You fail at logic

[SmallFurryCreature]

By your logic, since a restaurant is in the business of selling food, if it actually sold any food, it would reduce the demand for food and be hurting its own business.

In general, if you try to sell something, people want to see you can deliver. This is especially true in the anti-piracy business where there are a lot of shouters who claim they can protect your stuff but none that are able to deliver. thepiratebay.se is proof of that.