TeamOverload
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The Pirate Bay Trial: The Official Verdict - Guilty | TorrentFreak
Thoughts from anyone on the situation?
Thoughts from anyone on the situation?
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The Pirate Bay Trial: Guilty
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I dont understand this. I've been searching it up all day. How on earth were they finally charged? I thought those copyright rules didnt apply in sweden. Also, they're not hosting the files, they're only providing a search engine. Its sorta like p2p software, its not hosting the files, its just connecting you to someone who has them. So no harm done, right?
I think they just wanted to make an example out of these guys. Its mad, how can they get imprisioned for piracy with a sentence you wouldnt even get for stealing.
I think they just wanted to make an example out of these guys. Its mad, how can they get imprisioned for piracy with a sentence you wouldnt even get for stealing.
There will be an immediate appeal. I doubt the duration of this sentence will stand even if the appeal fails.
Chathurga
Active Member
No. ************ can do this (just like Google can). TPB can also be used for completely legal reasons, there is nothing inherently illegal about the site.
Which is why this sentence is total bullshit.
ChurchedAtheist
Your resident psycho hobo
what's w/ the asterisks?
Sousanator
Shockingly Delicious
TPB Raking in Millions Industry Watch
They have enough to pay the fines, its the jail time that worries me.
These guys weren't doing anything illegal, morally wrong to some people maybe, but since morals are subjective it can't be law.
I'm sure the years jail sentence and insane fine are just for the media to gobble up and scare everyone with. Trust me, putting "COMPUTER PIRATES THROWN IN JAIL" on the front of a london paper would dramatically decrease the amount of non-knowledgble people pirating. Its just scare mongering.
Slasher
Suck It
EvilSeph
Administrator
Actually, if the appeal(s) fail...this affects the internet as a whole...and many other things in our lives.
The site in general was not ordered to be shutdown, because the case was centered around a few files (20 or so) owned by Sony, EMI, and so on. They managed to prove that Pirate Bay ASSISTED in allowing users to infringe copyright through the .torrent upload/download system and the tracker, for these specific files, and the resulting losses were used to calculate the ridiculous fine which they already say they will refuse to pay.
No "internet legalities" will change. This is happening in Sweden and not in the US/EU. It won't and shouldn't set precedents for other courts around the world
Lachrymose
smokeMeth();
Check out their video blogs. Very interesting.
Sweden is in the EU? Not that that matters really, but yeah, just because it didn't happen in the US doesn't really have much relevance as to where this example will be brought up again in the future. As EvilSeph said it's different on subject of the internet, things won't be confined as they usually would be.
ISPs proved illegal, Google proved illegal etc.
No, because the key differences here are that ISPs and Google aren't explicitly helping pirates, plus they constantly work with copyright holders to remove illegal content from their servers.
TPB knew they were hosting loads of content, and refused to work with copyright holders to remove said content. They are therefore arrested with assisting piracy.
Anyway, they're lucky to get away with just the year (which they'll most likely get out in 6 months with good behaviour).