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Originally Posted by donnie
I know very well what abetting means.
If there is no evidence of a crime there is no prosecution. In this case prosecutor (and the court) has to guess if the crime has been committed.
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the charges are based on evidence gathered from their seized hardware in 2006. why would you argue that they are simply "guessing" that a crime was committed and can't substantiate it?
thats also quite illogical. have you read the 33 counts?
"In 2007, some 600,000 out of nine million Swedes downloaded feature films, according to Mediavision. The Swedish research firm expects the number to rise to some 800,000 this year."
doesn't seem to me like its hard to connect the dots between piratebay.org and Swedes downloading copyrighted material given all the hardware, e-mails, icq logs, public comments, interviews, blog posts on their sites etc
it seems obvious who is making access to that material available (contributory infringement etc) and that they do it to profit from it
and it seems quite clear that the very purpose of the site and the often stated intent of its owners is to do that exact thing.
(btw... Sweden remains one of my favorite countries.. been there many many times.)