Comments on: The Pirate Bay ‘Spectrial’ Day #11 – Prosecution’s Closing Arguments

By: Pirate Bay Trial Verdict Expected Tomorrow

Pirate Bay Trial Verdict Expected Tomorrow — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:48:28 +0000

[...] The Pirate Bay, Hans Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundströmface, each face up to one year in prison and fines as high as [...]

By: du2vye

du2vye — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“… loss of goodwill” towards the music industry?

goodwill (n)
1. An attitude of kindness or friendliness; benevolence.
2. Cheerful acquiescence or willingness.
3. A good relationship as of a business with its customers or a nation with other nations.
4. The positive reputation of a business viewed as an asset equal to the excess cost required to acquire the business over the fair market value of all other assets.

No the music industry did that all by themselves.

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You should ignore a 3rd party expert in favor of our experts who are on payroll paid by us to spin statistics. Clearly our experts are more qualified because the numbers display what we want them to display. blah blah blah

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Funny thing is what kind of expert is Kennedy who STILL concludes that one download = one lost sale?

By: DrewWilson

DrewWilson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

One who has been bought out by the industry to act as a mouthpiece for the industries own otherwise unqualified claim.

By: DrewWilson

DrewWilson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Swedish prosecutor Håkan Roswall began by arguing that even though the person actually committing copyright infringement resides abroad the actual crime occurred in Sweden.

This proves that the prosecution doesn’t know what it’s talking about because that’s simply not the case. The BitTorrent protocol means that pieces of data are collected from users connected to a swarm from all over the world and then reassembled on a person’s PC. The only crime committed in Sweden which it isn’t under Swedish law is allowing users to communicate with another by downloading a non-copyrighted BitTorrent tracker file. ”

Totally agree. It’s like blaming the traffic light for any car accident that occurred on the road the traffic light sits on. It’s absurd.

By: marathon1968

marathon1968 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I thought they made 1 million Us dollars a year per founder.
They can’t even keep their figures straight.

By: DrewWilson

DrewWilson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Haha. That doesn’t surprise me though considering they couldn’t figure out their own statistics on Canada’s piracy rate just two years ago.

By: Theinfamousone

Theinfamousone — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

let’s hope Piratebay pulls through. I noticed their server is down right now and got worried. Even if they do go down that will suck for the 4 who get sent to prison and sued but those users will just go somewhere else hasn’t anyone realized this by now? There’s still mininova and a million others.

By: TheRealMcCoy

TheRealMcCoy — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

the trial? huh! It’s been a waste of 3 weeks learned nothing that we didn’t already know just like we knew it would be… a complete waste of their own time a money.