A lawyer of one of the Pirate Bay four has called for a retrial, after Swedish news sources put the judge in cahoots with several pro-copyright groups. We knew this was going to get messy, but we didn’t see this twist coming.
The Pirate Bay admins have hit back at the guilty verdict and prison sentence handed down to them by a Swedish court on Friday, declaring that “the site will live on!” Looks like The Pirate Bay won’t be scuttling the ship without a fight…
The Pirate Bay four may have been found guilty and sentenced to prison this morning, but that hasn’t put a stop to their swashbuckling attitude. Peter Sunde, one of the site’s founders, has just laid the smackdown, telling the world that “we can’ t pay and we wouldn’t pay.”
UPDATE: The Pirate Bay defendants may have been found guilty, but curiously, the verdict hasn’t included an order to shut down the website. Is this the win the entertainment industry has hailed?
The Pirate Bay trial verdict tomorrow could change internet and copyright law forever, and even if many in the media have failed to recognise the significance so far, one institution certainly hasn’t: the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology. It’s bought one of the Pirate Bay’s servers, and put it on display in a museum.
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The iPad will be the go to place for all forms of media in future, Rupert Murdoch has declared in a new interview. Given that Murdoch happens to be the world’s biggest media mogul, we’re inclined to sit up and listen: read on for the video and what he had to say.
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