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The Pirate Bay 'Spectrial' Day #7 - Prosecution Alters Charges

By soulxtc

The Pirate Bay prosecutor altered the copyright-infringement charges Tuesday to make it easier to convict the four defendants who co-founded the world's most notorious BitTorrent tracker. Moments later, Hollywood investigators testified about the ease with which they obtained copyright works using the 5-year-old site. But at the outset of Tuesday's proceedings, the prosecutor, Håkan Roswall, announced a alteration of the charges, which legal scholars suggested would make it more likely to win a conviction. The prosecutor removed one sentence from the part of his summons where the purported crimes are described. Until Tuesday, it read: ?The Pirate Bay consists of three sub-components: an index portal in the form of a website with search functionality, a database with related directory containing the torrent files, and a tracker feature.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on February 25, 2009 (boomark / email).