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The Pirate Bay 'Spectrial' Day #11 - Defense's Closing Arguments

By soulxtc

Notes that no copyrighted material ever exists on The Pirate Bay's servers, that technology is what's really on trial in the case against the BitTorrent tracker site. The Pirate Bay trial concluded today with the defense making their closing arguments. It began with Jonas Nilsson, who represents Fredrik Neij, one of the four founders, arguing that technology itself is what's really on trial in the case and not the BitTorrent tracker site itself. "The prosecutor has said that it is not the technology that is on trial, but it is Pirate Bay's technology and how it is used that renders it permissible," he told the court. He noted that no copyrighted material ever passes through the site's servers and that technology is to blame and not the defendants.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on March 03, 2009 (boomark / email).