The Pirate Bay to be Charged by Swedish Prosecutors

"If copyright infringement is a civil tort in the U.S. and not a crime please explain the FBI warning at the beginning of every movie." See http://www.defendfairuse.org/ftc_complaint.html The CCIA has complained to the FTC about these FBI warnings along with the copyright warnings in books and sports programs.

Here's a scenario for you the city builds the roads that people use to travel on however someone uses that road to mug someone walking along is the city responsible for the mugging as an accessory to mugging because they provide the means to travel? This is just pure rubbish in the end thankfully there have been closer cases in the past that have been thrown out so they oughtta be fine. What ever happened to the Media Defender stuff that showed that several Swedish megacorp companies were involved in attacking the legitimate website or are they trying to bring down the house before they get pinned for it?

It never ceases to amaze me the blind level of hope alot of people have. The law rarely comes into play when dealing with file sharing and copyright issue. Tvlinks and TPB are good examples. They have NO content illegal or otherwise and as such cannot be guilty of "giving it away". They are essentially just "links". How far does that trace? Does it go back too google too because google posts links to TPB?. This has nothing to do with law only the MPAA and the likes cash and influence. TPB will surely be found guilty as they have NO CHANCE of a fair trial.

these guys either know how to do their stuff or have good lawyers :P and yup like someone else said here we go again......

Thursday they will attempt to charge but who knows how long the whole process takes? Conspiracy to commit copyright infringement? What the hell is that? Isn't everyone guilty of that buying a recordable device of any kind?

If copyright infringement is a civil tort in the U.S. and not a crime please explain the FBI warning at the beginning of every movie.

I'm not sure about Swedish law but I think in US law an accessory charge can only be leveled on crimes and in the US Copyright Infringement is a civil-tort not a crime. So while I don't know if its the same in Sweden I doubt such an approach could work in many nations. I give this approach an 85% chance of failing.

Okay just Googled "sweden copyright law" here is what they say: http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/2707/a/15195 New copyright rules since 1 July 2005 Today copyright-protected material such as music films books newspapers etc. can be copied rapidly and transmitted easily over the Internet. On 1 July 2005 the Copyright Act was amended in order to adapt it to technological development. The new copyright rules are largely based on an EC Directive.

I thought Sweden's laws were very explicit and specific that only "works of art" were protected and that this was the "loophole" for TPB along with the fact that they do not actually HOST the content. Guess people will go back to trading CDs or keychain drives with music etc. Oh well.

@Freeloader Took for granted that spellcheck fixed it (now corrected). "A fictional character in Greek mythology Sisyphus was a king punished in the Tartarus by being cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill only to watch it roll down again and repeat this throughout eternity." ----- activity that is unending and/or repetitive. ----- eternity of frustration

I'm sure TPB will win this one. But if they won't then it will be a sad day for the filesharing community. Also what does Sysiphisian mean (Google wouldn't help)?

o here we go again!

Copyright infringement is both a tort and a crime... 15 U.S.C. § 101 et seq. (2006) lays out the conditions under which a case may be brought. Pirate Bay and Grokster (decided in U.S. Supreme Court a few years before) both established that if the primary purpose of the accused's activity is to aid in the infringement of someone else's copyright, then that person may be held accountable as an accessory. Now, while law enforcement might be unwilling to go after an individual downloading and copying files from the internet, it probably would be willing to go after a person who facilitated the action for thousands or millions of infringing people. It's all a question of resources. The Supreme Court emphasized though is that the person's activity must have as its *primary* intent the incitement or inducement to infringe copyrights. So: you build an Internet and some infringement happens: you're safe. But, you build a Grokster and tell people it's the new Napster... then they come after you, notwithstanding all good your torrent technology might be able to do for people who have 1 GB files that they can't share over e-mail.

"If copyright infringement is a civil tort in the U.S. and not a crime please explain the FBI warning at the beginning of every movie." See http://www.defendfairuse.org/ftc_complaint.html The CCIA has complained to the FTC about these FBI warnings along with the copyright warnings in books and sports programs.

Here's a scenario for you the city builds the roads that people use to travel on however someone uses that road to mug someone walking along is the city responsible for the mugging as an accessory to mugging because they provide the means to travel? This is just pure rubbish in the end thankfully there have been closer cases in the past that have been thrown out so they oughtta be fine. What ever happened to the Media Defender stuff that showed that several Swedish megacorp companies were involved in attacking the legitimate website or are they trying to bring down the house before they get pinned for it?

It never ceases to amaze me the blind level of hope alot of people have. The law rarely comes into play when dealing with file sharing and copyright issue. Tvlinks and TPB are good examples. They have NO content illegal or otherwise and as such cannot be guilty of "giving it away". They are essentially just "links". How far does that trace? Does it go back too google too because google posts links to TPB?. This has nothing to do with law only the MPAA and the likes cash and influence. TPB will surely be found guilty as they have NO CHANCE of a fair trial.

these guys either know how to do their stuff or have good lawyers :P and yup like someone else said here we go again......

Thursday they will attempt to charge but who knows how long the whole process takes? Conspiracy to commit copyright infringement? What the hell is that? Isn't everyone guilty of that buying a recordable device of any kind?

If copyright infringement is a civil tort in the U.S. and not a crime please explain the FBI warning at the beginning of every movie.

I'm not sure about Swedish law but I think in US law an accessory charge can only be leveled on crimes and in the US Copyright Infringement is a civil-tort not a crime. So while I don't know if its the same in Sweden I doubt such an approach could work in many nations. I give this approach an 85% chance of failing.

Okay just Googled "sweden copyright law" here is what they say: http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/2707/a/15195 New copyright rules since 1 July 2005 Today copyright-protected material such as music films books newspapers etc. can be copied rapidly and transmitted easily over the Internet. On 1 July 2005 the Copyright Act was amended in order to adapt it to technological development. The new copyright rules are largely based on an EC Directive.

I thought Sweden's laws were very explicit and specific that only "works of art" were protected and that this was the "loophole" for TPB along with the fact that they do not actually HOST the content. Guess people will go back to trading CDs or keychain drives with music etc. Oh well.

@Freeloader Took for granted that spellcheck fixed it (now corrected). "A fictional character in Greek mythology Sisyphus was a king punished in the Tartarus by being cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill only to watch it roll down again and repeat this throughout eternity." ----- activity that is unending and/or repetitive. ----- eternity of frustration

I'm sure TPB will win this one. But if they won't then it will be a sad day for the filesharing community. Also what does Sysiphisian mean (Google wouldn't help)?

o here we go again!