[x-pubpol] The Pirate Bay down as court appeal fails

[Joly MacFie]

[I just checked and it's perfectly reachable right now]

http://www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-features/61184-the-pirate-bay-down-as-court-appeal-fails

Sweden's Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by the founders of The
Pirate Bay, meaning their jail sentences and fines are now final.

After an appeal late in 2010, the Court of Appeals cut the men's sentences
to between four and ten months - but increased the fines by another $2.4
million. Now, they've failed in their last chance for a reprieve.

Sonde, at least, is not taking the verdict philosophically, claiming the
verdict is a result of widespread corruption.

"From having the minister of justice pressured by the US to illegally make
a case of TPB, through the police officer responsible for the investigation
(Jim Keyzer) 'just happened' to get a job at Warner Brothers the weeks
before I myself got promoted from a witness to a suspect..." he says on his
blog <http://%20http//blog.brokep.com/2012/02/01/maintain-hardline-kopimi/>.

"...to the judges in the court cases being either board members, or in one
case the actual chairman of the board, for the Swedish pro-copyright
society, it was clear to us that the supreme court – where many of the
judges make a lot of money on their own copyrights – would be hard to
persuade to take the case."

Following the verdict, The Pirate Bay has now moved its main domain to
thepiratebay.se. The site's concerned that, with the trial now out of the
way, there's little to stop the US seizing the domain as it recently did
with Megaupload<http://%20http//www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-features/60909-megaupload-shut-down-anonymous-takes-revenge>
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