Pirate Bay Defendants Found Guilty And Jailed

 

May 16-2009:

Pirate Bay Defendants Found Guilty And Jailed


Pirate Bay defendants found guilty and jailed Have media and software companies won a battle in the internet copyright war, or is it simply 'a theatre for the media'?
By Asavin Wattanajantra, 17 Apr 2009 at 11:18
 A Swedish court has found all four defendants guilty in the copyright case against the Pirate Bay, one of the world’s biggest-file sharing websites.

According to a statement given to Reuters, the Stockholm district court found four individuals guilty of breaching copyright laws, with each of them sentenced to one year in prison.

They were also sentenced to pay over 30 million Swedish crowns (£2.4 million) to cover lost revenues.

The Pirate Bay is a Swedish website which stores and tracks BitTorrent files, billing itself as the "world’s largest BitTorrent tracker" with an estimated 25 million users.

While it is seen as a win for film and music companies, it is also good news for IT companies like Microsoft and Apple, which have repeatedly complained about copyrighted software kept on the website.

Earlier this year, thousands of users managed to download the Windows 7 Beta before Microsoft officially released it.

It may not be the end of the matter though. On the Pirate Bay website blog, it was posted that this would not be the final decision and that the losing party would appeal.

One of the convicted, Peter Sunde, also wrote on his Twitter feed: “Stay calm. Nothing will happen to The Pirate Bay, us personally or file sharing whatsoever."

He added: “This is just a theatre for the media.


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Freedom To Speak-Inform & To Offend Others!

May 16-2009:

Freedom To Speak-Inform & To Offend Others!

There is always the possibility of someone feeling hurt or taking offense, after reading or hearing someone say something about him or her.

This element is human, and is found in every culture on this planet.

But when Freedom Of Speech, Writing, Publishing, and Dissenting becomes illegal or is prohibited. 

Then the commonweal MUST agitate for this Ruling/Legislation/Decree, to be outlawed as quickly as humanly possible.

Any civilized and democratic oriented society will allow Freedom of Expression, be it via Speech, Writing, or Publishing. 

Failing to allow such entitlements, jeopardizes or prohibits the people/commonweal from indulging or practicing true democracy!

Derryck.
NYC.

 

State Policing Versus Online Freedom!

May 16-2009:

An Employee Was Dismissed For His Objection To Internet Law In France!

Recently, I circulated an article informing members that France has enacted a law to debar online users from downloading and sharing Movies and Videos. The penalty is after three downloads, the online user will get two warnings for the first two downloads, and after the third download, he or she would be disallowed from accessing The Web from any online. provider.

However, an online user petitioned his Member of Parliament about his objection to this law, and his e-mail was forwarded to the Minister who was responsible for this Law that was enacted. Then the said Minister of Government forwarded this e-mail to the person's employer, after which the employer FIRED the employee for his objection to the law.

As far as I gather, what we have here is a classic case of The State and the Business/Employer's Community are in collusion with this Law, against their own employees and populace.

Heaven Help us All!

An excerpt of this article is listed hereunder;

Derryck.
NYC.

neurone333 sends along the cause célèbre of the moment in France: a Web executive working for TF1, Europe's largest TV network, sends an email to his Member of Parliament opposing the government's "three strikes and you're out" proposal, known as Hadopi. His MP forwards the email to the minister backing Hadopi, who forwards it to TF1. The author of the email, Jérôme Bourreau-Guggenheim, is called into his boss's office and shown an exact copy of his email. Soon he receives a letter saying he is fired for "strong differences with the [company's] strategy" - in a private email sent from a private (gmail) address. French corporations and government are entangled in ways that Americans might find unfamiliar. Hit the link below for some background on the ties between TF1 and the Sarkozy government. 
 
LINK: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/09/229217&from=rss