Behind the scenes of the Pirate Bay trial
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Behind the scenes of the Pirate Bay trial
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#2Disgusting, but par for the course in today's world.
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#3I have been reading about this for quite a while. Why is it that we never come to see faces and names of people who exert state control like this? For example, name and pictures of people from MPAA, US of A and Sweden and everyone in between starting from the lobby to those pushed over to set an example.
Though it's quite natural for people facing unjust trial to surface more often, it might just do good to the world if we can see faces of agents pushing the case for say RIAA, SOPA and so on... wouldn't it?
360 degree transparency will help if this is truly in the interest of public (as any Government claims).
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#4And even after all of that the piratebay still operates as though nothing ever happened.
You have to give those guys props for stamina.
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#5And even after all of that the piratebay still operates as though nothing ever happened. You have to give those guys props for stamina.
The four guys on trial were not involved with the site at the time the trial first started. There were already other people running it by then.
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#6I do not know if the facts presented here are true (although I expect that they are) this publication is heavily biased as it was founded by the creator of the Swedish pirate party.
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#7And then some mock Assange when he expresses fears that it could be the perfect scheme to grab him and extradite him to the US in the end. Reading this, I would also be myself cautious in the Sweden justice system. And btw my position is not against Swede at all, I think the justice system of my own country (France) is no better and is also rigged toward what the establishment/politics have decided.
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#8I have been reading about this for quite a while. Why is it that we never come to see faces and names of people who exert state control like this? For example, name and pictures of people from MPAA, US of A and Sweden and everyone in between starting from the lobby to those pushed over to set an example. Though it's quite natural for people facing unjust trial to surface more often, it might just do good to the world…
Corruption likes to hide in the shadows, that's why you don't hear about the names and see faces of the individuals doing this. As soon as a name becomes known, all sorts of political shifting occurs. They've got several layers of scapegoats and fall-guys to take the hit when abuse of power, corruption and treasonous behaviour are provable.
The types of crimes committed in suppressing the pirate bay are orders of magnitude more alarming than the notion of some 15 year old somewhere downloading a Brittany Spears CD and listening to it on his ipod. This has nothing to do with fairness, it has everything to do with taking a step to own the internet and every bit/byte that travels across it, why? So you can tax it.
Congressmen need to curry favor with entities with lots of cash, and you can't get them on your team unless you can threaten them with restrictive legislation. The congressman is like a parasite with tentacles into the host's brain. The parasite's power is only as great as it's ability to convince the host that it is in the best interests to feed the parasite. What we see here is the parasite trying to drill a hole and insert another tentacle into the host. You don't ask for lower regulations, you must forcibly remove it with a weapon or surgical instrument. You do not ask a parasite to stop regulating.
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#9And even after all of that the piratebay still operates as though nothing ever happened. You have to give those guys props for stamina.
The four guys on trial were not involved with the site at the time the trial first started. There were already other people running it by then.
Sure, but seeing your compadres nailed to a tree in this fashion would likely be enough to give most people pause.
To push on in light of that seems fairly determined to me.
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#10I do not know if the facts presented here are true (although I expect that they are) this publication is heavily biased as it was founded by the creator of the Swedish pirate party.
Hey, greetings to the US Embassy, how do you do ?