Half of Charges Dropped in Pirate Bay Case
Posted 02/18/09 at 09:10:12 AM by Paul Lilly
On just day two of the Pirate Bay trial, it's looking as though the defiantly outspoken quadruplet of defendants have good reason to enter the court room with confidence. Already in the high-profile case (for geeks, that is - we're willing to bet your mother has never heard of Pirate Bay), half of all charges brought against them have been dropped, and according to the prosecution's original estimated time frame, there's still 11 more days of court proceedings to go!
To state the obvious, the prosecution has been having trouble presenting its case. Specifically, it's so far been unable to prove that the .torrent files entered in as evidence were used by The Pirate Bay's tracker, particularly when the screenshots being shown clearly show that there is no connection, says TorrentFreak.com.
If that weren't enough, prosecutor Håkan Roswall might not be the best candidate to explain how DHT works to allow for "trackerless" torrents. Frederick Neij, one of the defendants, made a request to comment on Roswall's explanation on how BitTorrent works, essentially saying he doesn't have a clue. As a result, Roswall ended up dropping all charges relating to "assisting copyright infringement," leaving only "assisting making available" charges.
"This is a sensation," said defense lawyer Per E. Samuelson. "It is very rare to win half of the target in just one and a half days and it is clear that the prosecutor took strong note of what we said yesterday."
Ever the confident bunch, Peter Sunde, another defendant in the case, described the events as "EPIC WINNING LOL" on his Twitter account.
Pirate Bay cannot be destroyed
Submitted by Lord Omega on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 11:04am
The last time they tried to take PB down, they foiled that. Even if they manage to get the heads of PB, Frederick Neij and his other co-works have most likely made provisions to make it so that if you take if they go down, Pirate Bay does not. >.> Him and the rest of his friends are not that dumb. They always find a way out.
I came
I saw
I left
Good, I like that pirate bay
Submitted by AntiHero on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 9:20am
Good, I like that pirate bay stays up. There are seldom occasions I use it, but when I do, it's for legally owned software where my disc's are broken, missing or I lent it to a friend(where it got damaged, lost, or I can't get it back from them). Most recent was for Call of Duty 4, I bought it off steam, booted it in multiplayer, wrote out the keycode, and then uninstalled it and installed the torrent of the ISO. Now if steams servers are having problems or it can't connect, or my internet is out, I can play single player of CoD4 if I please. Or when my BF2 discs were destroyed while moving, the booklet was in order, so the key was fine, but I had no discs. I choose to use filesharing in the correct, legal means of the system. I didn't go to gamecopy world and get a nocd-fix, I took a mdf + mds files for each of my games that require cd's to play, so I don't have to swap discs on my cd drive (You should see my number of virtual drives..i should clean it up). That also helps those whom have a laptop without a cd drive(Few and far between but they're there and they can run Warcraft 3, Diablo 1 & 2 and Starcraft.) or whose cd drive is broken, it gives them the ability to install their games again. I don't use it for pirating games, or movies, or music. If a movie interests me, i go to the theatre to see it because i like the gigantic screen, if a game interests me i'll buy it, if there's no demo and a friend has it, I'll borrow it and try it out, if they don't, I'll buy it, if I don't like it, I'll return it, that's what returns are for. I do the very same thing for consoles.
If you look at it from my point of view...everything in the world can be used negatively (Cars, the internet, TV even) and positively. How you use it defines its morality.
Good man!
Submitted by silencedd on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 6:09pm
That's exactly the way I see things, and that's how it should stay. Back when I still played WoW, I had someone buy me Lich King at the launch event while I downloaded the game on bit-torrent, so I ended up being one of the first people to log in with the expansion. And as for shutting down PB, there's still more torrent search engines available, have fun trying to shut those down as well.
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