This is translated from Rasmus Fleischer of Copyriot, regarding the juridical aftermaths concerning the raid on the company PRQ, who had all their customers raided about a month ago. Some of their customers have had their equipment returned, some have not, and their own equipment, the equipment used for company administration, is still being held by order of prosecutor Håkan Roswall, without any given reason.
Now I’ve heard, by word of mouth from a person that was present in court in Stockholm on the Wednesday, what prosecutor Håkan Roswall said at the first negotiations that will be held regarding the seizure of various servers in relation with the Pirate Bay raid.
The company PRQ wanted their four computers back, computers used for book keeping and keeping tabs of customers (also necessary for PRQ to be able to pay their taxes). Håkan Roswall refuses and insists that the computers are to remain locked away for at least another year. He claims that this is important for the investigation.
When the court heard this case, it was thus time for Håkan Roswall to motivate his decisions. How did he do it? Well, first he allegedly talked about what bittorrent is in general for up about half an hour, and (nobody understands why) how virtual networking works. A guess is that the jurors were completely confused. Then Håkan Roswall said, according to what I have had told to me, literarily this:
I don’t know how to say this, but one could say that Piratbyrån is like the IRA and the Pirate Bay is like IRAs armed forces.
