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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.'"
Forum shopping. Yet another wheeze of legal systems everywhere -- they are designed by the 1% to benefit the 1% That much is hardly surprising.
I'm not surprised at all that the 1% consolidate themselves through corruption and unethical behaviour.
My old man tried for 10 years to get somebody to serve a writ on somebody else before giving up. However, the Premier of Queensland could have a supreme court writ served on somebody literally before lunchtime (which, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, the litigious old cunt, regularly did).
is ANYBODY suprised by this? really?