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05/17/2009 Some musings about The Pirate Bay trial I commented on digg.com about this. Article simply quotes a defense lawyer (lord knows they ain't biased - NOT) and doesn't contain anything specific. This is Law 101 - if you can't argue the merits of a case, throw every allegation of bias you can think up. The case is on appeal already, which means that the conduct of the judge and decisions of a legal nature will be considered. At least in American law, an appeal does not mean an re-evaluation of evidence or verdict. Only whether or not the correct legal procedure was followed. Swedish law doesn't use juries like American law, but this wasn't just one person deciding the case - there are three other lay judges. I guess I'm not like everyone else in thinking that TPB is completely innocent. They profited from illegal activity. Even their lawyers concede that illegal activity was occurring, their focus was showing that the owners and operators of TPB weren't responsible for the actions of others. I get that, but come on. if I own an apartment building and some tenants are using it to deal drugs, I can be held liable, particularly if I was aware of the activity. There is no doubt that TPB owners and operators were aware of the massive violations of copyright law being enabled by their site. As such, being found guilty of accessory to beach copyright law was appropriate. We can all agree that copyright law needs serious overhaul, but it's the law at the moment and lots of people are breaking it. These 4 guys are taking it on the chin for the hundreds of thousands of real pirates. Here's a tip for the defense lawyers: Go easy throwing out allegations of bias when defending something with "Pirate" in the title. Vínculos de referenciaWeblogs que hacen referencia a esta entrada
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