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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
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.)
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They have never uploaded or downloaded anything themselves. Uploading and downloading of copyrighted material is the crime that is committed by a third person. Whether this actually is a crime or not is just a media speculation. There is no investigation into it. That means the court will basically have to guess whether or not any crime has been committed and if PB people are guilty of helping to commit that crime.
But as you say they have been profiting of off this. That is what prosecutor is targeting but there is a problem here too
They have never sold any ad space themselves. They are using some kind of third party Israeli company (Targetpoint) for selling ads and the prosecutor is having a very hard time connecting them to the money.