The questioning of witnesses continued on wednesday, day seven of the trial against The Pirate Bay. We heard John Kennedy of IFPI answer questions, translated by some Omar who did a piss-poor job (!), about the negative financial impact on the music industry by sites such as TPB, and that the compensation claims are justified and even [...]
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Today it was announced that the Swedish crown princess Victoria and her boyfriend of seven years, Daniel Westling, are now officially engaged to be married. King Carl XVI Gustaf has given his blessing and requested the Swedish government to do the same. The royal family announced the news on national television earlier today and later [...]
Today the defense got the opportunity to question some people that are the ones that collected the evidence (Antipiratbyrån, “anti-piracy agency”) of The Pirate Bay by downloading files from TPB site. To me it seemed like neither the witnesses nor the defense attorney had very high technical knowledge about the BitTorrent-techonology, and there were alot confusion [...]
The fifth day of the trial against The Pirate Bay continued with questioning of Peter Sunde about his involvement with the website and companies handling the advertisements on TPB and Carl Lundström about his financial help of TPB. There were alot of irritation and the defense protested against the trial becoming very American when the [...]
In today’s trial against The Pirate Bay there were interrogations of Fredrik Neij and Gottfried Swartholm Warg about their involvement in TPB and other companies related to TPB, the contracts they have written and specifically about the ownerships and founders. They also touched on they subject of the fact that one can use any search [...]
On the third day of the trial against The Pirate Bay the organisation IFPI had their say about their claim on about 1.3 million euros, and representative from the movie and gaming industry claims around 400 thousand euros. Not only do they claim money for potential loss of sales they have suffered from all the [...]
The second the of the trial has been around more technical discussions about how actually torrent-files are created and how the tracker works and also mail conversations regarding the income of TPB from advertisements on the site. Some of the jurymen are reported to have trouble staying awake during the prosecutors long talks about his [...]
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