50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped

http://torrentfreak.com/50-of-charges-against-pirate-bay-dropped-090217/

by azharcs • 17 years ago

84 18 17 years ago

jacquesm5• 17 years ago

At this speed this trial will be over by the end of next week. But I think that will only lead to them trying again with a new batch of evidence.

Not sure on Swedish law & double jeopardy.

The funniest thing about this whole trial and the way it has been conducted by the prosecution so far is that if they wanted to help tpb to become even bigger then they could probably not have done a better job, people that never even knew it existed are now getting exposed to it in very large numbers.

If this goes on for a bit tpb will be somewhere in the top 50, right now they are nudging a top 100 position.

If they can't make it stick this will be the end of copyright as we know it, accelerated by a very incompetent prosecutor. Boy will the *aa be happy.

JBiserkov• 17 years ago

May be this is their evil plan - make The Pirate Bay SO popular, that it won't be able to handle the load and will eventually collapse under it's own weight :)

I guess they haven't heard of http://highscalability.com/

jacquesm5• 17 years ago

Excellent point, why didn't I think of that right away :)

Or, even more evil, they hope the owners will pull the plug during an attack of extreme anxiety, brought on by the increase in media attention. Or that they will go away when they've made enough money. Your train of thought opens up interesting possibilities...

jwilliams• 17 years ago

Not sure on Swedish law & double jeopardy.

Is this a criminal or a civil case? If it's the latter I'd assume that double jeopardy doesn't apply.

m_eiman• 17 years ago

Either way the prosecution can add more evidence in an appeal.

LogicHoleFlaw• 17 years ago

My favorite part of that article is the "EPIC WINNING LOL" quotation sourced from Twitter.

I love New Media.

vaksel• 17 years ago

if you are going to sue for millions, shouldn't you get a lawyer who understands technology?

I guess they got used to all those cases suing 12 year olds

jacquesm5• 17 years ago

Spot on, that's the first time that they take on a technically competent group that is being helped by an even larger group. In many ways that's the SCO trial revisited, I wonder how that would have turned out if groklaw had not existed.

electromagnetic• 17 years ago

It's ironic that the MPAA and RIAA's lawyer lackeys thought they could argue convincingly on technology against a group that's been doing this longer than they've likely used a computer.

It's the whole DRM vs crackers in games. All the scene members have been cracking DRM since it came out, all the people making the DRM have been doing it anywhere between 0 and 2 years. It's an unfair battle and companies don't get that they've already lost. The only reason why Apple succeeded so well with its DRM is that no one was used to the technology, Apple came out with a competent DRM to begin with so the crackers didn't get step by step challenges.

chris11• 17 years ago

And even worse, crackers do it as a hobby. DRM makers just do it as a job, so they have less incentive to make their DRM innovative. Crackers will see a hard to crack DRM, and view it as a challenge and a reason to get excited. When the iphone was cracked, the kid got news coverage worldwide.

nazgulnarsil• 17 years ago

it's not just that crackers are more experienced. DRM only needs one person to crack it for a total failure. The first person to crack it distributes it to everyone else without the DRM. DRM only works on the non tech savvy. And those are the people who are unlikely to steal your stuff anyway.

begemot• 17 years ago

So after two years of planning they drop half the case after just one day in court?

inerte• 17 years ago

But that allowed them to say TPB did awful things during these two years ;)

Spectrial indeed.

jacquesm5• 17 years ago

more news about this:

http://www.thelocal.se/17640/20090217/

Swedish news coverage, note the *AA spokespersons doublespeak.

50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped

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