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Peter Sunde's request for clemency [Google translate]

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Re: Peter Sunde's request for clemency [Google translate]

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> Thomas Bodström was summoned to the meeting in the White House and knew what it would mean to disobey. Sanctions against trade between the U.S. and Sweden within the framework of the World Trade Organization. Sweden could become a new Cuba.

This is news to me. Is there any publicly available evidence for this that I could read further on?

Re: Peter Sunde's request for clemency [Google translate]

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> Thomas Bodström was summoned to the meeting in the White House and knew what it would mean to disobey. Sanctions against trade between the U.S. and Sweden within the framework of the World Trade Organization. Sweden could become a new Cuba. This is news to me. Is there any publicly available evidence for this that I could read further on?

Sweden could not become a new Cuba.

Cuba is barely Cuba anymore.

The world is full of states who thumb their noses at WTO IP principles. None of them are as a result embargoed by the US.

Re: Peter Sunde's request for clemency [Google translate]

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He's using a lot of very strange wording in the original. Granted I was raised among immigrants in Sweden but the whole appeal reads very immature to me. But he starts out by saying he probably won't have it approved so it doesn't seem to matter. I would have put a little more effort into grammar though.

Re: Peter Sunde's request for clemency [Google translate]

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For those looking for a translation, Rickard Falkvinge (party leader for the Pirate Party) just commented on the post that he's going to translate it. I'll post it here when he's done.

The response from the prosecutor got posted about an hour ago (just a quote from it): http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&...

Edit: Google translate link.

Re: Peter Sunde's request for clemency [Google translate]

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OT rant: I can't read these Google machine translations, language is not a collection of words, not even words + syntax, it's full of idioms and collocations and hidden associations and stylistically motivated violations of accepted conventions. Instead of a translator who knows both languages (and cultures) well, the translation is being made by a code that actually knows neither. What I mean is: translating is very…

Really? Is complaining about the translation the best comment you can make about this letter?

Agreed. Not constructive, bordering to whining. The alternatives are, expecting someone to translate it, expecting Sunde to write it in English to begin with, or or for it not to be posted in the first place. It is incredible what native English speakers have to put up with...

Re: Peter Sunde's request for clemency [Google translate]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? Is complaining about the translation the best comment you can make about this letter?

Agreed. Not constructive, bordering to whining. The alternatives are, expecting someone to translate it, expecting Sunde to write it in English to begin with, or or for it not to be posted in the first place. It is incredible what native English speakers have to put up with...

Maybe, thinking this as a non-English native speaker, most of the Internet is written in a foreign language, so we are used to adapt ourselves. We don't expect to have everything available in our language. Heck, I'm really used to google "einstein en.wikipedia" for example, as I assume that the english article will be much richer than in my own language.

But when most of the world speaks your language, it looks like some people (I'm not generalizing here) are so used to expect english versions by default... that using tools like this feels bad.

Maybe some day, as our tools get better and better, this can be a thing of the past. Until then, if I can understand most of the text, it's not that bad.

Re: Peter Sunde's request for clemency [Google translate]

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post #16
post #15

For those looking for a translation, Rickard Falkvinge (party leader for the Pirate Party) just commented on the post that he's going to translate it. I'll post it here when he's done.

The response from the prosecutor got posted about an hour ago (just a quote from it): http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&... Edit: Google translate link.

This is not a reply to the letter we're discussing in this thread.

Re: Peter Sunde's request for clemency [Google translate]

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For those of us who aren't really aware of who this is or what is happening (like me), Peter Sunde is one of the founders of The Pirate Bay. He was sentenced to a year in prison and ordered to pay ~US$3 mil in restitution.[1] I believe his appeals were recently exhausted so he's going to have to serve his sentence.

1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sunde#The_Pirate_Bay_Tria...

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