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Well I think this is a sad day for Sweden because it kind of shows that the courts are totally inkompetent in the use of Internet. I´m not surprised bu I´m sad. I have never used Pirate Bay or any other torrent tracker but I just can´t accept that our use of Internet should be decided by multinational corporations.
The TPB-guys are no saints, and very likely they go to far but what they really wants seems to be total information freedom.
I have just read a new swedish book called "Piraterna : de svenska fildelarna som plundrade Hollywood" (free translation: The Pirates: the swedish filesharers that plundered hollywood) by Anders Rydell. Its a really interesting because it explains, the roots of the swedish pirates and also the copyrightholders position. Lundstrom for example agreed to help fund TPB because of personal resentment, and in the beginning the TPB-guys accepted because groving popularity made them dependent of faster lines.
Political wiews by Lundstrom were the fartest thing of their minds at that point. Of cause later Lundstroms past came back to hunt them when it was used by others to try to discredit TPB.
Clara
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