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Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 1) 1020

Eeerr, the US government denied to cooperate and said nothing about what they wanted to be blacked out, except perhaps if one counts them saying "Black out everything, for the love of GOD don't release anything at all!!".

It's more important to the US government to have deniability about how accurate the leak is than to save actual persons life it seems.

Submission + - The Pirate Bay Appeal Verdict: Guilty Again (suprbay.org)

An anonymous reader writes: The verdict against three people associated with The Pirate Bay just been announced. The Swedish Appeal Court found Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström guilty of “contributory copyright infringement” and handed down prison sentences ranging from 4 to 10 months plus damages of more than $6.5 million in total.

In April last year the Stockholm Court sentenced the ‘The Pirate Bay Four’ to one year in prison and a fine of $905,000 each. The defendants immediately announced that they would appeal the decision and the case went before the Appeal Court two months ago.

Today, Friday November 26, the Swedish Appeal Court announced its decision. Compared to the District Court ruling, the court has decreased the prison sentences for the three defendants, but increased the damages that have to be paid to the entertainment industries.

“The Pirate Bay has facilitated illegal file-sharing in a way that results in criminal liability for those who run the service. For the three defendants the court of appeal believes it is proven that they participated in these activities in different ways and to varying degrees,” the court stated.

The court did consider the individual input of all three, which resulted in varying prison sentences ranging from 4 to 10 months . The total damages of 46 million kroner ($6.5 million) will be equally shared among Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström.

Peter Sunde (born September 13, 1978) alias ‘brokep’
Guilty of contributory copyright infringement
8 months in prison
A share of the $6.5 million in damages

Fredrik Neij (born April 27, 1978) alias ‘TiAMO’:
Guilty of contributory copyright infringement
10 months in prison
A share of the $6.5 million in damages

Carl Lundström (born April 13, 1960)
Guilty of contributory copyright infringement
4 months in prison
A share of the $6.5 million in damages

The total damages are higher than in the District Court ruling. “This is because the court of appeal, to a greater extent than the district court, accepted the plaintiff companies’ evidence of its losses as a result of file-sharing,” the court noted.

All Nordic entertainment industry companies get the entire amount they asked for, and the remaining companies get about half of what they requested.

The fourth defendant, Gottfrid Svartholm, is not included in the verdict because he was absent at the court hearings due to medical circumstances. His case will be reviewed later.

“This was a political trial from the start and it must be resolved politically,” Rick Falkvinge, leader of the Pirate Party said in a response to the verdict. “The public has lost all confidence in the justice system in these matters, and it is beyond sad that the courts still persist in running special-interest justice.”

Entertainment industry insiders, on the other hand, applauded the verdict. “It’s a relief that the court of appeal finally affirmed that you’ll be sent to prison if you carry out this type of activity,” movie industry lawyer Monique Wadsted said.

Although none of the defendants has officially commented on how to proceed, it is very likely that this will not be the end of the case. It is expected that it eventually will go all the way to the Supreme Court.

Whatever happens next, not much will change for the users of the popular BitTorrent indexer. The Pirate Bay website will remain online and operating as usual. None of the defendants are involved in the site anymore, and all assets are reportedly owned by the Seychelles based company Reservella.

Submission + - Pirate Bay trio lose appeal (pcpro.co.uk)

nk497 writes: Three of the founders of The Pirate Bay have lost an appeal against their conviction last year of helping to share copyright material. It wasn't a total waste of time, however. Three of the foursome have had their one-year jail sentences cut to between four and ten months. (The fourth was too ill to appear in court, and will appeal separately.) The foursome also had their fine bumped from 32 million kronor to 46 million kronor.

Comment Re:California Taxes (Score 1) 329

Maybe you have the same problem I had the last few days:
I have the classic index but the discussions where messed up.
I unchecked somthing about "Dynamic" under Discussions in the preferences (can't see exactly what since that page now doesn't look the same) and I got slashdot back to the way I wanted.

Comment Re:Classic Index? (Score 0, Offtopic) 153

Sorry for the offtopic. Didn't know what I was talking about it seems. I have the classic index but the discussions where messed up.
I unchecked somthing about "Dynamic" under Discussions in the preferences (can't see exactly what since that page now doesn't look the same) and I got slashdot back to the way I wanted.

Comment Re:Fox News! Burn it! Burn it with fire! (Score 5, Informative) 111

Yes, there is an error in the Fox News article. Here is a quote from the official site instead:

ECONOMICS PRIZE: The executives and directors of Goldman Sachs, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Magnetar for creating and promoting new ways to invest money -- ways that maximize financial gain and minimize financial risk for the world economy, or for a portion thereof.

http://improbable.com/ig/winners/

Submission + - Swedish Pirate Party to Host New WikiLeaks Servers (piratpartiet.se) 1

Ezel writes: The Pirate Party will host several new WikiLeaks servers. This was agreed during Julian Assange’s visit to Stockholm last weekend, and the Pirate Party is happy to announce that everything has been finalized.
Last week, the Pirate Party challenged the other Swedish parties to assist WikiLeaks in its democratic effort. The Pirate Party has been the first to step up uo the plate, and keeps calling on others to defend freedom of the press in Sweden. As a result, WikiLeaks have commissioned a number of new servers that will be hosted and taken care of by the Pirate Party.

The Pirate Party will provide bandwidth and hosting to WikiLeaks free of charge as part of its political mission.

Comment Re:Please spread to other countries... (Score 1) 356

If you already has a party that has the politics you want (The Green Party) then join them and work from the inside if you feel that going the new-party-road is to hard in France. The swedish pirates has a culture of seeing their party as a way to 'hack' the political system, just as one would hack a computer system. The new-party-exploit might be patched in France, but there usually is another way to get influence.

And also, you French guys have La Quadrature du Net which is doing some great work. Joining them would be a good start if your not already active there.

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