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arstechnica.com - 2/13/2009
Pirate Bay trial starts Monday; pirate bus en route
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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 ...
50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped
torrentfreak.com - 2/17/2009
50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped
— torrentfreak.com — 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 ... (more) 50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped

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Charges dropped—"making available" now focus of TPB trial
arstechnica.com - 2/17/2009
Charges dropped—"making available" now focus of TPB trial
— 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 ... (more) Charges dropped—"making available" now focus of TPB trial

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Pirate Bay file sharing trial begins in Sweden
TechSpot — A landmark file sharing case has begun in Sweden as the four men behind The Pirate Bay go on trial . Charges were brought against them in January 2008 for allegedly being accessories to breaking copyright law. If found guilty, the men could face up to two years in prison and a fine of 1.2 million kronor (almost $150,000) as well as any damages the court may award. Unsurprisingly, the defendants remained defiant that the torrent tracker site would live on regardless of the outcome of the case. They claim The Pirate Bay is not a for-profit group nor it stores any copyrighted ...

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