Pirate Bay co-founders deny ownership of site

TPB is right about Nobel Peace Prize at least

They stood up for themselves, and didn't tell the whole world they sucked.

I would imagine they didn't sit in a Press conference filling out their NCAA brackets either.

As a 'merkin

I can say that Obama should have his taken away and let it be given to someone who actually DID something besides lie through their teeth.

/I think I hear the helis.....

Re: There is a prison cell with their name on it

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3261698,00.html

http://www.mdolla.com/2008/03/in-swedish-prison-8-photos.html

"Three Israelis jailed in Scandinavian country turn down offer to continue serving their sentence in homeland, explain 'here we are treated with steaks, sex and private television airing World Cup games for free'"

Yep, Swedish prison will teach em.

And that's just googles first two returns on *Swedish prisons*.

@ Serious question

When you call Google a "torrent tracker" I'm afraid it puts a pretty large hole in your claim of seriousness.

Napster didn't host any material themselves either. It didn't make any difference then, and it doesn't now.

And no-one is going to sue Dutch Telecom for carrying the bits.

There are legal principles behind all of this - the funny thing is I'm sure you're already aware of all of them. Contributory infringement, common carriers, etc.

This just proves once again that when nerdy thieves think they have found "loopholes" legitimizing their theft, they are wrong on a legal level as well as the obvious moral one.

Why oh why

is this case getting so much attention, and the case against iiNet (an Australian ISP) being completely ignored.

Especially given the case against iiNet was brought at the direction of the MPA in the USA (http://www.itnews.com.au/News/157967,day-five-film-industry-monitored-internode-exetel-and-optus.aspx)

Don't think for a second that if the Movie Studios win this case in Australia it won't affect ISPs in any other country. This is just a test case for the MPA against a small ISP in what they think is a backwater country (which just happens to have copied the US copyright laws wholesale when they signed a free trade agreement a few years back), and it will no doubt form the basis of their legal strategy elsewhere if it succeeds.

They have also used the same legal dirty tricks as in the Pirate Bay case of including several serious but ultimately bogus claims in the original case, which are then dropped mere days before the start of the trial.

Spoiled kids

These guys just come across like a bunch of spoiled kids in trouble.

"Is this yours?"

"No miss I sold it three years ago."

"Oh really, who to?"

"Dunno, miss."

"Did you get a receipt?"

"No miss."

I don't recall them mentioning this in their defence before, even though if it were true it would be pivotal evidence. I suppose the dog ate their homework as well. How do they expect a court or anybody else to take them seriously when they spout this shit?

All along I've got the impression from these fucktards that they don't take any of this stuff seriously and think that somehow daddy will come along and make it all go away. At first Daddy was the Swedish legal system, but that daddy seems to have deserted them and run off with his secretary. Not sure who they think daddy is now, but if they do hard time I'm sure they'll end up calling somebody daddy.

Les Matthew thinks you get sex is Swedish prisons? You probably do, but maybe not like you're thinking. And these guys don't strike me as the sort who will end up being the giver.