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The only reason they are going down is because they are so cocky. Foreign countries hate the US and don't appreciate US companies/government policies trying to influence them.
But lawyers have huge egos. If you call yourself the PIRATE bay, and you don't have a DMCA policy, and you say "in your face" to any legal notice you get and mock them on your website, then some lawyers are going to make it their mission to bring you down.
Ultimately, the lawyers know that it will do absolutely nothing to stop piracy, but they found themselves some people to make an example of. I mean, the pirate bay was just asking for it.
And they still have no respect. He called the prosecutor a clown and wondered if he passed fifth-grade math.
If they said, we believe what we are doing is legal, for fair use, time-shifting, not actually distributing the files, etc and responded to DMCA requests instead of mocking them, 100% they would not be on trial today. They might get sued by the MPAA in a US court, and they could just ignore that.
If it is a jury trial, and the jury decides to follow the LAW, they could get convicted. But if the jury decides to follow their own thoughts, and a good number of the jury will be supporting The Pirate Bay, then they will be acquitted, and Hollywood will shit its pants because it will be an In Your Face and let them operate forever without any more problems.
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