Another 15 minutes

Today the defense had their closing arguments in the trial against The Pirate Bay and they pointed out that Swedish law requires alot more for anyone being convicted of assisting in a crime than what is the case with TPB, this is supported both in other Swedish trials and in EU directives. To be convicted of assisting in a crime in Sweden there must be an active participation, one cannot be convicted of assisting in this type of crime by simply doing nothing about the illegal files being transferred through the TPB website. The trial is about to end soon and it will be very interesting to see what the outcome will be in this instance, either way it’s highly likely that the verdict will be appealed. I still have hopes though, but it could go either way I think.

Today the closing arguments began in the trial against The Pirate Bay. The prosecutor went through all the evidence and said that there is not doubt that the accused are all involved in TPB which is indeed profiting from its business, and is arguing for a verdict of one year in prison. The claim that TPB has made atleast 1 million euros in profit over 5 years seems highly unlikely though, but he is settling for about 100,000 euros based on the actual invoices the accused has agreed to. He made some good arguments and conclusion and referring to other cases like this in the past and also from current legislation about assisting in a crime. Tomorrow I believe is the closing arguments for the defense, and then there might be some time, maybe days or weeks, until we get a verdict (that is unless the court wants to advise the European Union Court). This is very interesting for many people… I think much is depending now on the final closing arguments of the defense.

Saw “The wrestler” today. There has been alot of talking about this movie that made the expectations high. The movie is about a wrestler who is struggling to stay in business even though he’s getting old, he ends up suffering from a heartattack and he gets a new perspective on life and tries to patch things up and living a normal life. Even though the acting is good and the movie itself is very well made it didn’t cut it for me, it was abit slow and the ending too abrupt. Some bloody scenes was also abit too real and made me uncomfortable.

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