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VIRTUALISATION The site that rocked - Pirate Bay founders guilty
VIRTUALISATION The site that rocked - Pirate Bay founders guilty | The site that rocked - Pirate Bay founders guilty |
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| by David M Williams | |
| Friday, 17 April 2009 | |
  
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The trial introduced the public to terms like “datanörd” and a legal argument set to go down in history as “the King Kong defence.” Key to the heart of the trial was whether the Pirate Bay genuinely infringed on anyone’s copyright. After all, its proponents argue, the content on the Pirate Bay’s servers are merely bittorrent files which simply serve to link Internet users with each other for the purpose of distributing a file or files of common interest. The four accused - Pirate Bay founders Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (“Anakata”), Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (“Brokep”), Fredrik Neij (“TiAMO”) and benfactor Carl Lundström – have been today found guilty of facilitating others in violating copyright laws. A substantial aspect of the Pirate Bay’s defence was that the group were interested in Internet technologies and paid little attention to what people were actually sharing with each other but given the Pirate Bay’s infamous retorts to legal threats, published on their web site, it is hard to truly swallow that such ignorance existed. Lawyers have indicated the ruling will be appealed, and Peter Sunde has been recorded as saying “It is irrelevant how it goes in the district court, there is no real ruling until the Supreme Court should have their say.” |
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