PirateBay goes to jail

[nate]

It was a swedish court. It seems to me that in America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, telling somebody where to go to get something, regardless of what that something is is protected speech.

American's should pay more respect their founding fathers and especially James Madison and Thomas Jefferson for the bill of rights.

[tickler]

Originally Posted by nate

It was a swedish court. It seems to me that in America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, telling somebody where to go to get something, regardless of what that something is is protected speech.

American's should pay more respect their founding fathers and especially James Madison and Thomas Jefferson for the bill of rights.

Actually I seem to recall some case where that telling somebody where to get something illegal(eg. - c.p.) was ruled not protected a little while back by some upper court. I'll see if I can dig up the reference.

The basic rules of law would put them in the conspiracy/accessory categories for enabling an illegal activity.

[Toby]

Originally Posted by tickler

The basic rules of law would put them in the conspiracy/accessory categories for enabling an illegal activity.

Under US law I believe the specific term in this kind of case would be contributory copyright infringement. MPAA won such a case last year. I can only assume there is something equivalent in Swedish law.

[raymor]

Quotes from the article trying to equate Pirate Bay with Google:

> They obviously cater their results towards Pirates, but
> technically they don't host the files
...

> Obviously, from a logical standpoint they are certainly aiding and
> abetting people who are stealing from the entertainment companies.

Indeed the purpose of Pirate Bay is theft, they are in the business of
facilitating theft. That's nothing like the business that Google is in, so
to pretend they are the same is ridiculous.