If you're going to play devil's advocate, you should read the indictment first and see what the devil is being accused of. Here are some damning allegations: 1

If you're going to play devil's advocate, you should read the indictment first and see what the devil is being accused of. Here are some damning allegations: 1. They lied to the courts to cover up the fact that they were, in fact, advocating for their own shell companies. Doing this is not a crime, lying about it is. 2. When the courts started limiting them to 1 defendant per lawsuit, they lied again and invented fake allegations of hacking. They had not been hacked, they just needed false pretenses to send more ISP subpoenas. 3. When judges started catching on to the above and asked them to explain themselves, they lied still more to cover up their previous lies. 4. One of them forged the signature of his housekeeper, setting the housekeeper up as the owner of a shell company. 5. They uploaded files to ThePirateBay themselves, then lied and said they didn't.