Comments on: Verdict in #spectrial: Guilty

By: Sofia

Sofia — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:15:26 +0000

twofish – ah yes thanks!

By: twofish

twofish — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:51:33 +0000

thank you for your coverage.
you may want to fix the spelling error in the title though

By: Christian S.

Christian S. — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:39:17 +0000

That almost made me cry.

People with no understanding of how the internet works tell you “how it works”.

Here in Germany a court ruled just the other day that you are even responsible for linking to a site that links to a site that … … … that links to a site that provides “illegal content”.

By: Sofia

Sofia — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:27:46 +0000

By Court I mean all 5 member that sat in on the trial.

By Judge I mean the Chairman who also is senior legal person on there.

Thanks I am pleased that once again Twitter peeps got the info out there first. In the live feed you could hear the mainstream English journalists asking and asking the Judge to speak to them but he was hesitant since he was not so comfortable with the English legal terms he should use.

By: Church

Church — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:23:39 +0000

What’s the distinction b/t the ‘court’ and the ‘judge?’

Thanks again for keeping us anglophones up to speed on this.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:10:13 +0000

Thanks Sofia for translation.
Also this sucks. I hope and pray for them to win in the end.

By: Sofia

Sofia — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:02:03 +0000

kensai111 – I can’t say I understand the Court reasoning either. I do think, and as feared, the members do not fully understand the situation, the technology and how it is being used.

The Judge said that they understood it – I wish someone could challenge them and have them prove it. Like here is a computer on the internet, show us how you understand P2P, TPB, the tracker and how this differ from Google.

Thanks for reading my stuff and sharing your points of views on here & on Twitter

By: Don’t Panic » Blog Archive » The Pirate Fray - Jeroen Baert / Forceflow’s blog

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:55:53 +0000

[...] around 12:40, Sofia posted a very good blogpost summarizing what she heard in the verdict. The Judge also said that The Pirate Bay was a commercial [...]

By: kensai111

kensai111 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:52:44 +0000

I still don’t see how the tracker (which all evidence of torrents being on the tracker was thrown out by the court) came into play as a part of the verdict. I’m going to take the safe bet and put it all on politics and money. Thanks again for the coverage Sofia, your English translations are very much appreciated.

Cheers,
Kensai