torrentfreak.com - 2/17/2009
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pirate bay What has been shown in court today is that the prosecutor cannot prove that the .torrent files he is using as evidence actually used The Pirate Bay’s tracker. Many of the screenshots being used clearly state there is no connection to the tracker. Additionally, prosecutor Håkan Roswall ...
arstechnica.com - 2/13/2009
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arstechnica.com —
The Harvard Law students defending accused file-swapper Joel
Tenenbaum are doing their best to turn his upcoming...
trial into a media event, but when it comes to pure spectacle, they have nothing on The Pirate Bay. The Swedish trial against the notorious BitTorrent tracker opens next ...
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Pirate Bay trial starts Monday; pirate bus en route
arstechnica.com - 2/17/2009
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arstechnica.com —
So far, most of the "spectacle" in the
Pirate Bay "spectrial" has come from the pirates—the pirate...
bus parked outside the court, the activists showing up with Pirate Party megaphones, the tweets from the courtroom. But on day two of ...
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Charges dropped—"making available" now focus of TPB trial
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Half of the Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped
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... to the Pirate Bay tracking servers, Fredrik Neij had to point out that the prosecution was not quite correct. The evidence used did not show Pirate Bay trackers being used and the Prosecution failed to explain DHT (Distributed Hash Table) which can be used for trackerless torrents. The defense says this is an amazing win for their side (Peter Sunde called it Epic Winning on Twitter) while the prosecution is working hard to downplay this critical mistake on their part. Read more here at TorrentFreak. What has been shown in court today is that the prosecutor cannot prove ...
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Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki 12:10 AM on February 18, 2009 Wednesday TorrentFreak reports 50% of charges against Pirate Bay dropped Engadget: Nvidia's Tegra in the flesh, booting to Android and pumping out 1080p video and Shuttle ships liquid-cooled SDXi Carbon SFF gaming PC Fudzilla reports AMD prepares dual-core 45nm surprise and MSI's new power efficient Winds listed DigiTimes reports Intel offering Core i7 CPU and SSD bundle VR-Zone reports Galaxy releases self-designed GTX 260+ card Expreview's quick ...
Half of Charges Dropped in Pirate Bay Case
Maximum PC —
... quadruplet of defendants have good reason to enter the court room with confidence. Already in the high-profile case (for geeks, that is - we're willing to bet your mother has never heard of Pirate Bay), half of all charges brought against them have been dropped, and according to the prosecution's original estimated time frame, there's still 11 more days of court proceedings to go! ...
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arstechnica.com 5/21/2009 —
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arstechnica.com 4/17/2009 —
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