Unfortunately not. Under Swedish law there is no such thing as illegal evidence - anything may be presented as evidence, even if it was illegally obtained.
I don't know where you got the number $500000 per month from - the prosecutor claims that they have made in total 1200000 SEK, or $200000. The Pirate Bay themselves claim that they are running it as a hobby project and the advertising just covers the hardware and bandwidth costs.
Downloading copyrighted material without the copyright owner's permission is copyright infringement under the law. Though it was legal in Sweden until some 30 months ago. It is in no way theft, which is regulated by a completely different law.
Helping people distribute digital data may be construed as accessory to crime, depending on the intent and the methods. I doubt that Microsoft are going to get charged with accessory to copyright infringement, though most people illegally distributing and downloading copyrighted material on the internet probably use Windows. I doubt that the Azureus or KTorrent authors are going to get charged with the same thing (even though I imagine the copyright industry lobbyists would love it). You can use Windows to distribute free and non-free data. You can use Azureus and KTorrent to distribute free and non-free data. You can use The Pirate Bay to distribute free and non-free data.
The Pirate Bay themselves claim that they are not breaking any laws. The prosecutor who is handling the case has claimed the same thing - a few months before the raid in 2006 he wrote a report where he said that running a BitTorrent tracker was not illegal under current Swedish law. It would be silly for everyone to voluntarily stay far away from any action that could be interpreted by someone somewhere as being just a little illegal.
It was the prosecutor who ordered the raid in 2006, on the grounds that The Pirate Bay was committing copyright infringement, though he knew full well that he would never be able to charge them with anything more serious than conspiracy to or accessory to copyright infringement - he even said so himself a few months before the raid. This was reported to the Swedish watchdog authorities, who dropped the case after asking the police and the prosecutor "You didn't do anything wrong, did you?" and getting the response "No, of course not" (in a few more words).
SPARQL is a query language for RDF data. Or more specifically, a pattern matching system for graphs with named nodes and edges. Yes, lots of people who talk about it use so many buzzwords that they sound like marketing dweebs on a caffeine overdose, but when you scrape off all the buzzwords and misdirected enthusiasm, what's left is actually somewhat useful.
Though you might argue that they could just as well use a single database table and normal SQL.
I know you are joking, but since we are talking about the Swedish Pirate Party PIRATE PARTY 2009!!!! or PIRATE PARTY 2010!!!! would be more appropriate. 2009 for the elections to the European parliament, 2010 the Swedish national one.
Cultural forms are bound to change, adapting to trends, technology, and the market (which in turn adapts to the law). Huge movie productions may not be as significant in 25 years as they are now, maybe because of lack of commercial viability, maybe because of other factors. Though when it comes to effect-driven science fiction shows or movies (which I assume that Battlestar Galactica is, for all my geekdom I haven't actually seen it) technological developments should push the production costs down quite a bit.
I am aware of that. I didn't mean that your not running a torrent site makes you less significant, I just wanted to respond to the parent who sounded like he thought that the whole point with the pirate party's political stance was to protect their own interests (e.g. their hypothetical torrent site).
Several reports from surveys in Sweden has said that the typical copyright-infringing filesharer is somewhere between 30 and 40 years old, not a school kid.
Morality is subjective and can of course never be codified into laws that should hold for everyone. There isn't any "right" or "wrong" in a democratic process, there is just the process.
True, 13 of 349 isn't very much. 13 out of 97 (the number of MPs in the conservative/liberal party) is 13.4%, which is far from a majority but certainly is a sign of momentum in an issue where this party wouldn't have dreamt of anything but strict copyright control a couple of years ago.
Also, the green party has been pro-"downloading" for a long time (although they are very unclear about "uploading"), so that's another 19 MPs.
The second text, signed by 13 MPs, is available in English here at the main author's blog. It's mostly a reply to another piece by the copyright lobbying organisations and the secretary of the Swedish Academy, so it may be a bit confusing if you haven't read that one (which only seems to be available in Swedish here).
A legalisation would hardly bring about any huge increase in filesharing traffic. Nobody cares about the law today.
And of course all the file sharers wouldn't move to Sweden. The point of peer-to-peer is that it's, well, peer-to-peer. The traffic is distributed, not centralised.
This article on Wall Street Journal seems to say that 43% in a survey are planning to download music during the year. It doesn't say whether the question specified downloading copyrighted material illegally, and I don't know how many of those that responded negatively are not computer users.
For example, as we know it there are some parameters in the standard model of physics that have to be set just right in order for the universe as it is currently set to exist. That is for the strength of the gravitional force, magnetic force, atomic etc. We also know that our current fundamental physics theories are incomplete, so those free variables may not exist at all.
I ran exclusively Linux on desktop and laptop for 3 years. I ran Gentoo. I deflibberated many many cronoodleblitzen. I loved it. Still love it. Still manage 6 Gentoo servers.
I currently run Leopard an a Macbook Pro. Translation: You grew old and tired.:)
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I stand collected. I was almost right though. :)
Unfortunately not. Under Swedish law there is no such thing as illegal evidence - anything may be presented as evidence, even if it was illegally obtained.
I don't know where you got the number $500000 per month from - the prosecutor claims that they have made in total 1200000 SEK, or $200000. The Pirate Bay themselves claim that they are running it as a hobby project and the advertising just covers the hardware and bandwidth costs.
Downloading copyrighted material without the copyright owner's permission is copyright infringement under the law. Though it was legal in Sweden until some 30 months ago. It is in no way theft, which is regulated by a completely different law.
Helping people distribute digital data may be construed as accessory to crime, depending on the intent and the methods. I doubt that Microsoft are going to get charged with accessory to copyright infringement, though most people illegally distributing and downloading copyrighted material on the internet probably use Windows. I doubt that the Azureus or KTorrent authors are going to get charged with the same thing (even though I imagine the copyright industry lobbyists would love it). You can use Windows to distribute free and non-free data. You can use Azureus and KTorrent to distribute free and non-free data. You can use The Pirate Bay to distribute free and non-free data.
The Pirate Bay themselves claim that they are not breaking any laws. The prosecutor who is handling the case has claimed the same thing - a few months before the raid in 2006 he wrote a report where he said that running a BitTorrent tracker was not illegal under current Swedish law. It would be silly for everyone to voluntarily stay far away from any action that could be interpreted by someone somewhere as being just a little illegal.
It was the prosecutor who ordered the raid in 2006, on the grounds that The Pirate Bay was committing copyright infringement, though he knew full well that he would never be able to charge them with anything more serious than conspiracy to or accessory to copyright infringement - he even said so himself a few months before the raid. This was reported to the Swedish watchdog authorities, who dropped the case after asking the police and the prosecutor "You didn't do anything wrong, did you?" and getting the response "No, of course not" (in a few more words).
Yes, of course. Assuming that Swedish courts care one bit about US precedents.
SPARQL is a query language for RDF data. Or more specifically, a pattern matching system for graphs with named nodes and edges. Yes, lots of people who talk about it use so many buzzwords that they sound like marketing dweebs on a caffeine overdose, but when you scrape off all the buzzwords and misdirected enthusiasm, what's left is actually somewhat useful.
Though you might argue that they could just as well use a single database table and normal SQL.
I know you are joking, but since we are talking about the Swedish Pirate Party PIRATE PARTY 2009!!!! or PIRATE PARTY 2010!!!! would be more appropriate. 2009 for the elections to the European parliament, 2010 the Swedish national one.
Cultural forms are bound to change, adapting to trends, technology, and the market (which in turn adapts to the law). Huge movie productions may not be as significant in 25 years as they are now, maybe because of lack of commercial viability, maybe because of other factors. Though when it comes to effect-driven science fiction shows or movies (which I assume that Battlestar Galactica is, for all my geekdom I haven't actually seen it) technological developments should push the production costs down quite a bit.
I am aware of that. I didn't mean that your not running a torrent site makes you less significant, I just wanted to respond to the parent who sounded like he thought that the whole point with the pirate party's political stance was to protect their own interests (e.g. their hypothetical torrent site).
Not to mention sculptures and installations that so far are rather tricky to put on the Pirate Bay.
Falkvinge is not running a torrent site.
Sounds you were unlucky. The latest report from PTS (the Swedish post and telecommunications board) says that 97% of all phone connections offer *DSL.
Several reports from surveys in Sweden has said that the typical copyright-infringing filesharer is somewhere between 30 and 40 years old, not a school kid.
Morality is subjective and can of course never be codified into laws that should hold for everyone. There isn't any "right" or "wrong" in a democratic process, there is just the process.
True, 13 of 349 isn't very much. 13 out of 97 (the number of MPs in the conservative/liberal party) is 13.4%, which is far from a majority but certainly is a sign of momentum in an issue where this party wouldn't have dreamt of anything but strict copyright control a couple of years ago.
Also, the green party has been pro-"downloading" for a long time (although they are very unclear about "uploading"), so that's another 19 MPs.
Downloading copyrighted material was legal in Sweden until July 2005.
The second text, signed by 13 MPs, is available in English here at the main author's blog. It's mostly a reply to another piece by the copyright lobbying organisations and the secretary of the Swedish Academy, so it may be a bit confusing if you haven't read that one (which only seems to be available in Swedish here).
No. Selling sexual services is legal, buying them isn't.
A legalisation would hardly bring about any huge increase in filesharing traffic. Nobody cares about the law today.
And of course all the file sharers wouldn't move to Sweden. The point of peer-to-peer is that it's, well, peer-to-peer. The traffic is distributed, not centralised.
You mean SonyEricsson. Nokia are Finnish.
This article on Wall Street Journal seems to say that 43% in a survey are planning to download music during the year. It doesn't say whether the question specified downloading copyrighted material illegally, and I don't know how many of those that responded negatively are not computer users.
So the old pope didn't believe in the bible?