ISP That Cut Off Pirate Bay Sabotaged > How long before court orders new ISP to drop thepiratebay?

said by NOVA_Guy:

Why should this happen? TPB wasn't doing anything illegal, per se... at least IMO. Providing a pointer to pirated content is not the same as providing the pirated content itself. I wish I had been the judge in that criminal case... folks who should have been found not guilty would have been set free, and justice would have been served.

As much as I think piracy is wrong, and as much as I do not condone it, I still don't think that what TPB did is tantamount to piracy.

said by Matt:

You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but they were found guilty in a country notoriously liberal when it comes to copyright law. They're guilty. Hosting a torrent is definitely facilitating copyright infringement. They didn't just link to the torrents like say Google, they hosted the .torrent file as well as the tracker to connect people who downloaded that file.

I don't like it any more than you do, but we weren't privy to the court proceeding so you have to respect the court's decision, even if you don't agree with it.

said by RARPSL:

The only problem is that they were NOT charged with facilitating copyright infringement but only copyright infringement itself. When the prosecution failed to prove that charge, the Judge (who was a member of the organization bringing the case and thus should have removed himself before hearing the case) improperly allowed them to raise this new charge in the middle of the trial.

said by sonicmerlin:

That whole trial was ridiculous actually. All of Sweden was in an uproar over the illegitimacy and obvious bias of the judge and the way the trial was conducted. The level of obvious corruption going on really upset the people there, so I really don't think you can blindly call out TPB for being convicted.