The Pirate Bay: Two Appeal Judges Have Conflict Of Interest

[admin]

The Pirate Bay defense wants two judges in their upcoming appeal to be thrown off the case, as they believe these judges are biased. One judge is actually a member of the Swedish Copyright Association, and another is a member of the Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property.

The appeals court has already ruled earlier that these two judges are not biased just because they have associations with pro-copyright groups, but TPB defense will challenge this ruling in the Supreme Court to ensure they get a fair trial.

More:

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-takes-bias-claims-to-supreme-court-091016/

[doctorhardware]

I have to agree that they need to be excussed from the case. I do not think that the ruling would be fair.

[admin]

The bias allegations have now delayed the appeal until next year, which is probably what TPB defence team wanted in the first place.

More:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/173900/pirate_bay_appeals_postponed_until_next_year.html

[drfsupercenter]

Haha, precisely, because now we get another year of piracy

Seriously, though, one thing I noticed... those few days when the site WAS down because of those ISP moving issues, nobody really noticed. All the torrents still worked fine thanks to DHT and all the other sites that relay torrents (like Sumotorrent or those ones that keep popping up on google) had mirrors.

So in reality TPB will always be around whether the site is forced to go offline or not...