Relatedly, the Register has an article on the legal battle over the Pirate Bay:
One pressure group associated with the site claims that the Swedish police were misled and incompetent in their actions.
“[Anti piracy group] Antipiratbyran has clearly misled the police in this case,” said Tobias Andersson of Piratbyran, a spin-off of Piratebay.org dedicated to promoting file-sharing. “They seem to have convinced incompetent police that the servers in question are filled with copyright protected materials.” The Piratbyran statement said that there is “no illegal material on the actual server”.
The servers contained not media files but links to BitTorrent files containing material. Christopher Wallin of the IT group of Swedish law firm Delphi & Co said that this is not likely to be a successful defence. “Our opinion is that that is silly. That is an argument they have been making for the last two or three years,” said Wallin. “They have committed a contributory offence, it is a contribution to copyright infringement.”
That defense wouldn’t fly in an American court, but it’s possible Swedish law is different.
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