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> got exempted in court because it was done for a good cause. Wow...as described here, your legal system sounds...useless.
by acct1771 9y ago
> got exempted in court because it was done for a good cause.
Wow...as described here, your legal system sounds...useless.
- rotorblade 9y agoIt is very bad indeed. 1. The judge in the pirate bay case was a member of an organisation "Svenska föreningen för upphovsrätt"/"The Swedish Organisation for Copyright" (my own translation), and it was decided not to be partial to the pirate bay case. See for example [0]. 2. Even if there were diplomatic pressures on Sweden from the US (which there were [1], their actual impact is what is in question), it should be impossible for a minister to influence the police directly [2]. Which makes for the pirate bay take down to be a ridiculous coincidence. 3. Sweden allows lawyers with their own, so called, "intellectual property" interests to defend suspects of file-sharing. See for example [3] which do give credit for this lawyer doing a good job, but just in principle this seems absurd (imo). I hope he is not allowed to be the defence lawyer if it is his own material at least. [0] (Swedish, summary in English) https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/3800778 https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/3800... [1] https://torrentfreak.com/how-the-us-pushed-sweden-to-take-down-the-pirate-bay-171212/ https://torrentfreak.com/how-the-us-pushed-sweden-to-take-do... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministerstyre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministerstyre [3] (Swedish) https://overklass.wordpress.com/tag/fildelning/ https://overklass.wordpress.com/tag/fildelning/