TPB Trial has ended... waiting for a verdict now.

[Recursion]

"Assisting in the theft of copyrighted material" was the biggist issue, are they, or are they not?

[Ardemax]

"Assisting in the theft of copyrighted material" was the biggist issue, are they, or are they not?

I believe that's true.
And there's a few others.

Is it true they could just liquidate half of TPB?

[Recursion]

I believe that's true.
And there's a few others.

Is it true they could just liquidate half of TPB?

Well, the amount of servers etc.. they have.. probably could well do!

[Colin-Roberts]

They figure TPB tracks over 20% of torrents.. that a big hit for the users but i believe they will be found guilty of lesser charges.. they'll just move to another country anyways..

[RyanDOT]

If they get the logs, they only arrest the regular users who download alot from TPB, for me. I only download like 5 movies in one week, now i don't download from them..

[The Professor]

"Assisting in the theft of copyrighted material" was the biggist issue, are they, or are they not?

In the same way that road builders and car makers are assisting bank robbers

[Kevin]

I don't think anything will happen with the trial, as they are not hosting the files, they have too many disclaimers to get in big trouble.

They might get a small fine but I dont think anything will become of it.

[Barmi]

In the same way that road builders and car makers are assisting bank robbers

Your analogy fails because road builders and car manufacturers are not fulfilling their roles in order to assist banks being robbed. Here, the defendants are intentionally using their architecture to facilitate illegal activity. It may be a moot point as far as the Swedish case is concerned, but it's pertinent to killing your analogy.

I have not paid nearly enough interest in the case, or know sufficient Swedish law, to form an educated guess at the outcome. If they have an 'assisting' argument against them... wouldn't that be difficult to negative given that they are knowingly facilitating illegal activity?

I dare say nobody here is well versed in the intricacies of Swedish law, so 'they will' and 'the will not' cannot easily be bandied about. Predicting the 'likely' outcome is possible... but there is not a definitive here yet. Oh, and gut instinct tells me that Sweden is probably one of the more favourable countries (for the defendants) to be tried in.

@Kevin: the vast majority of the time, disclaimers on websites count for ****.

[no waiii]

i didnt read any posts cause too many but i read they got done for assesting copyright

[Recursion]

Well maybe you should read the posts next time? Thats the point in a forum :S