Sweden, what have you done?!?
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:19 AM, xDxD.vs.xDxD <[email protected]> wrote: > Helo there! > > yes it is incredible. even more as the whole process began with the trial > being started with a unilateral accusation, sponsored by consulents of the > editors' and publishers' organizations present in italy (such as SIAE and > FMI). > > which is just as if person X, today, would go to the police and say "oh, > well, i THINK that xDxD (or marc garrett, or anyone else) is a criminal". > And the police come after me. With no proof or documentation apart from some > screenshots in which a series of *rows show numbers separated by dots next > to a date and a string containing the name of a movie, dot AVI* . > > but then again, italy's not the easiest of places to be during these last > few years. reminds a lot of the 1940's, in a new mediatical form. > > we co-organized with RomaEuropaFAKEFactory and Art is Open Source a meeting > on/with the Pirate Bay on the same day as the presentation in the senate, > together with Luca Neri, who recently published a book on the whole issue: > > http://www.artsblog.it/post/3146/speciale-reff-part-2-reffternoon-al-flexi-con-luca-neri-21-marzo-ore-1800 > > and then there has been a big event which received lots of media coverage: > > http://www.no-copyright.net/ > > (sorry, the reports are in italian, but they might prove useful anyway) > > nothing has changed. :( > > take care! > xDxD > > > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:35 PM, marc garrett > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Italian Pirate Bay Trial in the Making. >> >> Following the Swedish verdict, Italy is now considering starting its own >> trial against the people involved with The Pirate Bay. This would be the >> first criminal prosecution against the Pirate Bay 'founders' outside >> their home country. >> >> During August last year, The Pirate Bay was "censored" in Italy when >> ISPs were ordered to block access to the worlds largest BitTorrent >> tracker. The Pirate Bay appealed the block and eventually won the court >> case. In October the Court of Bergamo ruled that no foreign website can >> be censored for alleged copyright infringement. >> >> However, with the Swedish verdict against The Pirate Bay in hand, the >> Italian justice authority is now looking into the possibility of >> starting their very own trial against the Pirate Bay 'operators'. >> Interesting to say the least, because The Pirate Bay and those involved >> with the site have no direct link to Italy. >> >> more... >> http://torrentfreak.com/italian-pirate-bay-trial-in-the-making-090502/ >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ***************************** Pall Thayer artist http://www.this.is/pallit ***************************** _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
