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Day #4 of The Pirate Bay 'Spectrial' - Accused of 'Purposeful Crime on Grand Scale'

By soulxtc

"This is about a purposeful crime on a grand scale with significant income as a result", claims legal counsels for the music and film companies today in the case against the BitTorrent tracker site. Day #4 of the 'Spectrial' against The Pirate Bay continued yesterday with Prosecutor Håkan Roswall citing a Finnish against the Finreactor BitTorrent tracker site for apparent use later in the case. Per E Samuelsson, defense lawyer for Carl Lundström’s, then presented e-mail correspondence with the other defendants and he discussing wanting to try and find a country (non-EU) where to relocate the site due to changes in Swedish Law based on a new EU directive. Was asked to investigate if Argentina would be an option. It's also noted that The Pirate Bay is totally uncensored, combing over 1000 index requests each day which is impossible to manually review.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on February 19, 2009 (boomark / email).