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Originally Posted by gideongallery
that btw is totally fucked up
the prosecution failed to prove that the pirate bay was even involved in the trading of copyright material (DHT was turned on, they didn't have a single screenshot of the tracker list to show that the peers were assigned by the tracker)
and they got convicted.
so basically the arguement was the pirate bay is guilty of copyright infringment even though there isn't any evidence they were even involved in any of the transactions we investigated.
I realize it getting off on a technicality but if to say that a judge who complete ignores the fact that the procecution didn't even prove defendents were involved at all and still comes to the conclusion that they were guilty of the crime that (at least based on the evidence) they were not involved in at all is not bias is total bullshit.
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Dude, they run a site that links directly to copyrighted material which then allows you to click it and download at your leisure. I am not going to argue the semantics of their guilt or innocents or the details of torrents vs seeds vs leeching vs the swarm vs whatever. The bottom line is this: Before the Wolverine movie came out (a few weeks before it was even in theaters) The Pirate Bay had links on their site that allowed you to download it. Every single person that downloaded that movie (and the MPAA estimates were that it was around 4 million - although probably all of those were not from The Pirate Bay) violated the copyright law. Maybe they weren't hosting it, maybe they weren't seeing it, but they linked to it knowing full well what it was. They facilitated it. I am of the opinion that sites like that should not be allowed to exist. Maybe they got a raw deal and this judge should have been removed but Karma is a bitch. When you make a ton of money facilitating theft sometimes things don't work out for you.