I thought file-sharing was totally legal in Sweden anyways?

not since america put the pressure on us and the eu made some laws.

from what i've heard what got to the pirate bay guys is a device the supreme court made a few years ago and it says if you help someone with something and you don't care if it's legal or not then you're guilty of helping the criminal act if the "something" helps the criminal.

so if i give you a gun and i don't know that you're doing anything illegal then im safe but if i state that i don't care what you do with it then im guilty. i heard all this from "anti-censurship on the internet guys" so it may not be 100% true but then this is a middle age lawyer who was speaking at a pirate party convention thingy and he seemed pretty legit.

Latest news: The judge in the trial, Tomas Norström, apparently has ties to the media industry, which is a big no-no. There is a chance now (according to the news) that the trial has to be re-done with another judge because this one is considered biased.

We'll see what happens.

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-lawyer-is-biased-calls-for-a-retrial-090423/

source btw.
i can't help but laugh while reading this. jesus christ they cannot even conduct a fair trial for what they believe so strongly to be ethically wrong.

Haha man that is disgraceful

Wow, I really hope this means a retrial, I can't believe the judge actually agreed to go on with that trial.
Hopefully they'll get a new FAIR trial this time.

this is the face of the son of a bitch

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this is the face of the son of a bitch

- Holy fuck, they're on to me!

Is that true drule? You should pull some gamer strings

congratulations everyone on stopping piracy!  *opens champagne bottle*

it still works for me.

my input:

while the question of whether what trackers do is illegal is murky, there is no question that it -should- be illegal.

the main problem is whether or not telling someone where to get files is illegal.

and, it should be because: it's aiding a crime. actively. the pirate bay is an active accomplice in every single instance of copyright infringement that occurs due to the pirate bay tracker. this is what the verdict basically came down to, and i agree with it.

of course, technicalities are technically, after all, what it comes down to, so it's still up in the air i guess.


ALSO:

yeah despite all this isn't 99% of Youtube's profits from like getting songs/music videos/tv shows/movies/anime for free and they just put up some emo fags to make it look like a legitimate business

youtube makes a HUGE loss. it isn't even close to profiting yet.


and wrt profiting: i believe TPB gave an amount of money to piratebyran, which is kinda like 'lining your own pockets' because that isn't directly related to upkeep of the site and its servers.




TO SUM UP:

if you're 'outraged' in any way about this verdict because you feel that you have a right to be a pirate in any way, you're retarded

Why's that, dom?

because you don't have a right to be a pirate