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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Can you find someone guilty of accessory to X without charging/prosecuting someone else of actually committing X? Can you be an accessory to a crime when the crime itself was not tried in court? I don't recall this trial including any of the actual copyright infringers being defendants?
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Yes. The motivation was general knowledge about crime committed. And that is not so strange. And they did not deny general knowledge. The strange thing is that the considered it shown that the intention was to help with illegal file sharing and that laws protecting for examples having links on a web page was not applicable.