[Year 12 IT Apps] Pirate Bay Founders Sentenced to Jail, Fines for Violating Copyright Law

Mon Jun 8 10:16:13 EST 2009

The Swedish Pirate Party has gathered enough votes to be guaranteed a seat
in the European Parliament... the Pirates have 7.1 percent of the votes ...
This means that the Pirate Party will get at least one, but most likely two
of the 18 (+2) available seats Sweden has at the European Parliament

Pirate Party leader Rick Falkvinge:

"Together, we have today changed the landscape of European politics. No
matter how this night ends, we have changed it. This feels wonderful. The
citizens have understood it’s time to make a difference. The older
politicians have taken apart young peoples’ lifestyle, bit by bit. We do not
accept the authorities’ mass-surveillance"

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-wins-and-enters-the-european-parliament-090607/

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Bill Kerr <billkerr at gmail.com> wrote:

> turns out that the judge who passed verdict in the pirate bay case is
>
> "... a signed up member of Svenska föreningen för upphovsrätt ('the
> Swedish Copyright Association'), where he is joined by Henrik Pontén, Peter
> Danowsky and Monique Wadsted, all of whom represented the entertainment
> industry in the case against file sharing site The Pirate Bay.
>
> The judge also sits on the board of Svenska föreningen för industriellt
> rättsskydd (Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property),
> a group actively advocating for more stringent copyright laws."
> http://www.thelocal.se/19028/20090423/
>
> one of the lawyers has called for a mistrial
>
> corruption in Sweden, whoever would have imagined such a thing?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Gavin Ballard <gavin at vitta.org.au> wrote:
>
>> As Forbes points out, this decision also raises some interesting questions
>> with regard to Google:
>>
>>
>> http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/17/pirate-bay-google-technology-internet-pirate-bay.html
>>
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bill Kerr" <billkerr at gmail.com>
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>> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Pirate Bay Founders Sentenced to Jail,
>> Fines  for Violating Copyright Law
>>
>> it will be interesting to see how the Pirate Party goes in the next European
>> parliamentary elections (June 7th)
>>
>> http://www.thelocal.se/18954/20090419/
>>
>> The Pirate Party organized demonstrations against the convictions at
>> several cities across Sweden on Saturday. More than 1,000 people turned out
>> in Stockholm to show support for The Pirate Bay defendents and the practice
>> of file sharing ...
>>
>> Since the Stockholm district court passed judgment on April 17th the
>> Pirate Party confirmed on Saturday afternoon that its membership has swelled
>> to 21,000.
>>
>> The party's youth league is now, with its 10,000 members, larger than all
>> of the parliamentary party youth organizations.
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Roland Gesthuizen <
>> rgesthuizen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, remember a trial in the 80’s when the film industry sued Sony for
>>> manufacturing VHS tapes that were used for 'illegally' copying movies? (now
>>> known as time shifting) .. history just repeating itself.
>>>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._v._Universal_City_Studios
>>>
>>> Regards Roland
>>>
>>> 2009/4/18 Anderson, Stuart L <anderson.stuart.l at edumail.vic.gov.au>
>>>
>>>  I'm sure this will lead to the demise of
>>>> torrents...........................................and pigs might fly.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/04/17/pirate-bay-founders-sentenced-to-jail-fines-for-violating-copyright-law/
>>>>
>>>>
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