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The Pirate Bay trial

January 01, 1970

The Pirate Bay trial was a joint criminal and civil prosecution in Sweden of four individuals charged for promoting the copyright infringement of others with the torrent tracking website The Pirate Bay.[1][2] The criminal charges were supported by a consortium of intellectual rights holders led by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), who filed individual civil compensation claims against the owners of The Pirate Bay.[3]

The Pirate Bay trial
Protesters showing support for The Pirate Bay on the first day of the trial.
CourtStockholm District Court, Sweden
Full case nameB 13301-06
Decided17 April 2009
Court membership
Judge(s) sittingTomas Norström

Swedish prosecutors filed charges on 31 January 2008 against Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, and Peter Sunde, who ran the site; and Carl Lundström, a Swedish businessman who through his businesses sold services to the site. The prosecutor claimed the four worked together to administer, host, and develop the site and thereby facilitated other people's breach of copyright law. Some 34 cases of copyright infringements were originally listed, of which 21 were related to music files, 9 to movies, and 4 to games.[2] One case involving music files was later dropped by the copyright holder who made the file available again on the website of The Pirate Bay. In addition, claims for damages of 117 million kronor (US$13 million) were filed.[4] The case was decided jointly by a professional judge and three appointed lay judges.[5]

The trial started on 16 February 2009 in the Stockholm District Court, Sweden. The hearings ended on 3 March 2009 and the verdict was announced on Friday 17 April 2009: Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström were all found guilty and sentenced to one year imprisonment and pay a fine of 30 million SEK (about €2.7 million or US$3.5 million).[6] All the defendants appealed the verdict, and in November 2010 the appeal court shortened the prison sentences, but increased damages.

On 1 February 2012, the Supreme Court of Sweden refused to hear an appeal in the case, prompting the site to change its official domain name from thepiratebay.org to thepiratebay.se.[7]

Background edit

Main articles: The Pirate Bay and The Pirate Bay raid

The Pirate Bay is a Swedish website that indexes and tracks BitTorrent files. It bills itself as "the galaxy's largest BitTorrent tracker"[8] and is ranked as the 73rd most popular website by Alexa Internet.[9] The website is funded primarily with advertisements shown next to torrent listings. Initially established in September 2003 by the Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån ("The Piracy Bureau") it has been operating as a separate organization since October 2004.

 
Swedes protesting the police raid during a demonstration on 3 June 2006

On 31 May 2006 the Swedish police organized a raid on The Pirate Bay in 12 different premises,[10] confiscating 186 servers[11][12] and causing it to go offline for three days. Upon reopening, the site's number of visitors more than doubled,[13] the increased popularity attributed to greater exposure through the media coverage. The raid, alleged by The Pirate Bay to be politically motivated and under pressure from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA),[14] was reported as a success by the MPAA in the immediate aftermath but with the website being restored within days and file sharing firmly in focus in the Swedish media, with TorrentFreak calling the raid "highly unsuccessful".[15][16]

The police, however, conducted a preliminary investigation on the confiscated material and by interrogating associated people. In late 2007, a four thousand page report was produced by the prosecutor in preparation for a trial,[17] containing email and SMS messages, payment documents, police interrogation records, and screenshots of The Pirate Bay site.[18][19]

Trial and courtroom charges edit

See also: Judicial system of Sweden

On 31 January 2008 Swedish prosecutors filed charges against four individuals they associated with The Pirate Bay for "promoting other people's infringements of copyright laws".[1][2] One of the artists represented by IFPI, Max Peezay, withdrew from the case, decreasing his distributor's compensation demand by 120 000 SEK. Peezay hadn't been asked about participating in the case, and he in fact supports file sharing for private use.[20] Peezay noted however that being unfamiliar with the site, his withdrawal shouldn't be interpreted as a sign of support for their case.[21] The trial began in February 2009. The evidence used in the trial was based on the material acquired in the 2006 raid.[10]

The Swedish national television broadcaster Sveriges Television considered the trial important[22] and provided a live online feed of the entire trial,[23] which had never been done in Sweden before.[24] The live audio and archive sections done in cooperation with Dagens Eko were part of the 24 Direkt program, which became one of their most viewed online content during the trial, second only to Melodifestivalen.[25] The trial was also broadcast live by Swedish public radio.[26]

The defendants referred to the trial as a "Spectrial", which is a portmanteau of "trial" and "spectacle",[27][28] and set up a blog to inform users on the event.[29] The term has also caught on with some bloggers and supporters.[30]

First day of the trial edit

 
Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm, Rick Falkvinge and Marcin de Kaminski [sv] at the demonstration by the court house on the first day of the trial

On 16 February 2009 defence lawyer Per E. Samuelson stressed to the court that "file sharing services can be used both legally and illegally". Samuelson argued that "it is legal to offer a service that can be used in both a legal and illegal way according to Swedish law" and that The Pirate Bay's services "can be compared to making cars that can be driven faster than the speed limit". Defense attorney Jonas Nilsson insisted that "the individual Internet users who use Pirate Bay services... must answer for the material they have in their possession or the files they plan to share with others."[31]

Second day of the trial edit

On 17 February 2009 (the second day of the trial) half of the charges against The Pirate Bay were dropped.[32] According to defense lawyer Per Samuelson, "This is a sensation. It is very rare to win half the case in just one and a half days and it is clear the prosecutor took strong note of what we said yesterday". Peter Danowsky, legal counsel for the music companies, stated "It's a largely technical issue that changes nothing in terms of our compensation claims and has no bearing whatsoever on the main case against The Pirate Bay. In fact it simplifies the prosecutor’s case by allowing him to focus on the main issue which is the making available of copyrighted works."[33] The prosecutor was unable to prove that the .torrent files brought as evidence were actually using The Pirate Bay's tracker. Furthermore, prosecutor Håkan Roswall did not adequately explain the function of DHT which allows for so-called "trackerless" torrents. These shortcomings in the evidence resulted in prosecutor Håkan Roswall having to drop all charges relating to "assisting copyright infringement", leaving "assisting making available" as the remaining charge. Roswall stated that "everything related to reproduction will be removed from the claim".[34] Sanna Wolk, a doctor in law and researcher at Stockholm University observed that "this is not surprising, at least for those who follow the matter. We knew that The Pirate Bay wasn't making any copies directly".[4]

Third day of the trial edit

On the third day of The Pirate Bay trial, prosecution witnesses claimed damages on the basis that it should have obtained worldwide licenses for the content it distributed. Where content wasn't officially available, a Beatles song, for example, it should be charged at 10 times the going rate. This calculation underlines the prosecution's demand for 117 million SEK (US$12.9 million, €10.2 million) in compensation and damages.[35]

"King Kong" defense edit

On day three of the trial, defense attorney Per Samuelson presented an argument later dubbed the "King Kong defense":[36]

EU directive 2000/31/EC[37] says that the person who provides an information service is not responsible for the information that is being transferred. In order to be responsible, the service provider must initiate the transfer. But the admins of The Pirate Bay don't initiate transfers. It's the users that do and they are physically identifiable people. They call themselves names like King Kong... According to legal procedure, the accusations must be against an individual and there must be a close tie between the perpetrators of a crime and those who are assisting. This tie has not been shown. The prosecutor must show that Carl Lundström personally has interacted with the user King Kong, who may very well be found in the jungles of Cambodia...[38]

Samuelson was referring to a real Pirate Bay user who posts via the username "King Kong", who Samuelson hypothesizes could be in Cambodia. He used this scenario to illustrate that Lundström had no control over the actions undertaken by Pirate Bay users. His main objection was that although the prosecutor had said that the accused would be tried individually, he had not once referred to them individually, but always as "them", "they", or "Pirate Bay". Samuelson said the persons behind The Pirate Bay could not be held collectively responsible for a crime committed by other identifiable individuals, such as "King Kong".[39]

The term "King Kong defense" was quickly popularized by blogs, file sharing news feeds, and media reports on the Pirate Bay trial.[40] Amused online commentators compared it to the Chewbacca defense from the TV series South Park, citing a reference to the "jungles of Cambodia" as "the kind of extraneous detail that makes the Chewbacca defense hilarious".[41]

In its April verdict, the court found that because the defendants indeed had collective responsibility for the site and knew some torrent files on it pointed to copyrighted material, the EU directive did not apply.[42]

Fourth day of the trial edit

On 19 February 2009, the fourth day of the trial, Fredrik was questioned several times. It came to the court's attention that Tobias Andersson, a future witness in the case, was in the court where he was later asked to leave the room. When it was movie industry lawyer Monique Wadsted’s turn, she introduced new evidence without warning. Noting the breach of protocol, the presiding judge asked if it was acceptable for the court to be considering evidence that was not already presented pre-trial.[43]

Fifth day of the trial edit

Day five of the proceedings saw conflict as the prosecution again attempted to introduce evidence that had not been shared with both the court and the defense during pre-trial. The defense objected vehemently with defense lawyer Peter Althin equating the tactic to something out of the old Perry Mason TV show. “Suddenly, the door opens and in walks an entirely new witness.” The presiding judge stopped the case to deliberate the matter and found in favor of the defense, instructing the prosecution to immediately hand over all material they planned to use.[44]

The prosecution and the defense spent the remainder of the day delivering conflicting portrayals of the Pirate Bay. The prosecution attempted to show the Pirate Bay as an immensely profitable business that made its money helping others violate copyright law. The defense attempted to show the Pirate Bay as nothing more than a search engine, no different from Google and thus subject to the same protections.

Seventh, eighth and ninth days of the trial edit

On days seven to nine, the court heard expert witnesses called by the prosecution and the defense.[45] They cited contradicting academic research on the effects of file sharing on sales in the music and film industry globally[46] and regionally in Sweden.[47]

Verdict and reactions edit

The four operators of the site were convicted by Stockholm district court on 17 April 2009 and sentenced to one year imprisonment each and a total of 30 million Swedish kronor (approximately US$3.5 million, €2.7 million) in fines and damages. The court found that the defendants were all guilty of accessory to crime against copyright law, strengthened by the commercial and organized nature of the activity.[48] The court, however, never presented its corpus delicti (that is, it never attempted to prove that a crime was committed, but it succeeded in proving that someone was an accessory to that crime). Prosecutor Håkan Roswall cited in his closing arguments a Supreme Court of Sweden opinion that a person holding the jacket of someone committing battery can be held responsible for the battery.[49][50] In its verdict, the court stated that "responsibility for assistance can strike someone who has only insignificantly assisted in the principal crime",[42] referring to a Supreme Court precedent where an accountant was sentenced for accessory to crime even though his actions were not criminal per se.[51] The court rejected the charge of preparation to crime against copyright law. The lawyers of all four defendants appealed the verdict,[52] with Lundström's lawyers filing their appeal immediately on the day the verdict was given.[53] The entertainment industry lawyers appealed as well, on reintroducing the dismissed charge and on the method of calculating damages, which in their opinion does not fully cover the lost income.[54]

Company Nationality Type of Industry Compensation for damages (SEK) Costs of litigation (SEK)
20th Century Fox   Motion Picture 10,867,460 ($1,285,354.91) 333,500 ($39,444.89)
Mars Media   Motion Picture 4,450,991 ($526,443.45) 333,500 ($39,444.89)
Columbia Pictures   Motion Picture 4,184,444 ($494,917.45) 333,500 ($39,444.89)
Yellow Bird   Motion Picture 3,150,000 ($372,568.01) 484,920 ($57,354.18)
Warner Bros.   Motion Picture 2,898,225 ($342,789.18) 592,000 ($70,019.13)
EMI Music Sweden   Music 1,798,975 ($212,774.77) 264,000 ($31,224.74)
Warner Music Sweden   Music 1,616,759 ($191,223.07) 54,000 ($6,386.88)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer   Motion Picture 1,394,831 ($372,568.01) —
Universal Music   Music 814,339 ($96,316.40) 156,000 ($18,450.98)
Sony Music Entertainment Sweden     Music 457,675 ($54,131.76) 468,000 ($55,352.96)
Playground Music   Music 310,794 ($36,759.33) 156,000 ($18,450.98)
Nordisk Film   Motion Picture 225,000 ($26,612.00) 53,880 ($6,372.68)
Bonnier Amigo Music Group   Music 47,349 ($5,600.22) 102,000 ($12,064.10)
Blizzard Entertainment   Video games — 25,000 ($2,956.88)
Activision   Video games — 12,500 ($1,478.44)
Total: 32,216,842[55] ($3,810,465.01) 3,368,800 ($398,446.70)

File sharing researcher Daniel Johansson called the ruling the most important file sharing related verdict in Europe so far, comparing it to the Napster verdict in the US.[56] The sentence is the longest ever awarded under Swedish copyright law,[57] and the prison time and damage compensation high by Swedish standards.[58] While most legal experts expected the court to find the defendants guilty,[59] they were surprised at the harsh verdict.[60][61] Sociology of law professor Håkan Hyden criticised the exceptionally harsh sentence on both the prison time and large amount of compensation awarded,[62] and some legal analysts expect the punishments to be radically lowered in higher courts.[63]

The international public following the trial received the verdict with varying opinions. Some high-profile copyright holders publicly defended the verdict, with former Beatles member Paul McCartney commenting to the BBC that "if you get on a bus, you've got to pay. And I think it's fair, you should pay for your ticket."[64] Mark Mulligan from Forrester Research considered the verdict very important for music industry PR,[65] and copyright holder organisations indeed praised it as a landmark verdict.[66][67] Likewise, The European Association of Internet Service Providers welcomed the verdict, commending judicial resolution to copyright infringement issues over internet filtering or three strikes policies.[68] The Economist went further by criticising that the sentence might not have been strong enough to act as a deterrent for setting up similar services in the future.[69]

Some copyright holders took a different view however: Snow Patrol vocalist Gary Lightbody commented in interview that "they shouldn't have been jailed... the punishment doesn't fit the crime."[70] In a column in Dagens Nyheter, composer and professor Roger Wallis, who was involved in the trial, condemned the verdict and its effects as paralyzing Swedish IT innovation on new ways of doing business.[71]

At the end of May 2009, Swedish Minister for Culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth made a speech to The Swedish Society of Popular Music Composers, expressing her opinion that "I was among those pleased about the Pirate Bay verdict."[72] In accordance with the ministerstyre in the Constitution of Sweden, it is unconstitutional for ministers to influence ongoing cases, and many political commentators criticised the minister's statement. Max Andersson, member of the Committee on the Constitution in the Parliament of Sweden, requested the committee to review the incident.[73] The committee pointed out the independence of judicial bodies and the government, and reminded ministers to exercise caution in their statements, but saw no need for further action or comment.[74]

Subsequent events edit

Over 25,000 people joined the Swedish Pirate Party in the ten days following the guilty verdict,[75] raising its membership to over 40,000 members and making it the fourth-largest Swedish party by membership count at the time, and the party with the largest youth organisation.[76] In Stockholm and other cities, the Pirate Party organized protests against the court's verdict. Over 1000 protesters gathered in the streets of Stockholm the following day.[77][78] Protest leader Malin Littorin-Ferm said "we young people have a whole platform on the Internet, where we have all our social contacts—it is there that we live. The state is trying to control the Internet and, by extension, our private lives".[79] Pirate Party Chairman Rickard Falkvinge claimed at the protests that "the establishment and the politicians have declared war against our whole generation,"[80]

Following the conviction, the IFPI demanded that Swedish internet service providers block The Pirate Bay, but the ISPs have refused to do this.[81] Jon Karlung, managing director of Bahnhof, stated that "we will not censor sites for our customers; that is not our job. I am against anything that contradicts the principle of a free and open Internet."

Several Swedish file sharing sites have closed voluntarily with The Pirate Bay verdict as a deterrent and as a result of further police investigation.[82]

On 20 April 2009, Anonymous mobilized "Operation Baylout", which included a DDoS attack on the IFPI International website, causing the site to go offline for a few hours. They released a statement asking supporters of file-sharing to refrain from making any industry-related media purchases during the months of April and May.[83][84]

Two artists originally mentioned in the indictment, Advance Patrol and Max Peezay, later went on to release their work on The Pirate Bay in spring 2009.[85][86]

Gottfrid Svartholm arrest (2012) edit

Gottfrid Svartholm, one of the TPB founding members, was arrested on 2 September 2012, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, while evading Swedish authorities following the 2009 verdict and conviction. A group of Anonymous hackers claimed to have attacked websites and internet systems belonging to the Cambodian government in the wake of the arrest. Although at the time of the arrest an extradition treaty was non-existent between Cambodia and Sweden, negotiations were entered into for the purpose of expelling Svartholm.[87]

Fredrik Neij arrest (2014) edit

Fredrik Neij, the last of the website's founders to be detained after dodging the 2009 conviction for copyright violations, was detained and later arrested in November 2014 in Nong Khai, Thailand. Swedish officials were brought in and Thai officials stated he would be extradited within the month.[88]

Bias allegations edit

In mid 2008 after the indictment had been served, it was discovered that the main police investigator in the preliminary investigation had started working for one of the plaintiffs, Warner Brothers, before the date of the indictment. Sunde's lawyer Peter Althin questioned the neutrality and reliability of the preliminary investigation in the event that the investigator had entered the new employment during the investigation, and suspected the job might have been a reward for good work in The Pirate Bay investigation.[89] Althin believed that the investigation might have to be redone if that was the case.[90] The prosecutor Håkan Roswall responded that it wouldn't have posed problems for the investigation because the police were working under his directive, and the investigator's superior officer brushed off the incident as nothing remarkable. Warner Brothers commented merely that the investigator hadn't received any compensation during the time he worked for the Swedish police.[91] According to Roswall, this type of concurrent employment would not be an individual incident, but that the decision of possible bias would be for the court to decide, and that the investigator is not a key witness in the case.[89][92] The investigator could not be reached during the trial and was taken off the witness list.[93][94][95]

Only days before the trial began, one of the three appointed lay judges was discovered to be a member of a composers' association that among others works on protecting copyright.[96] After discussing with judge Tomas Norström the problem the membership could pose to the trial, the composer recused himself from acting as a lay judge in the case and he was replaced with another.[97][98]

In the aftermath of the trial, presiding judge Tomas Norström, the same judge that ordered the 2006 raid on The Pirate Bay's servers, came under scrutiny after allegations of bias. Sveriges Radio P3 News organized an investigation that found on 23 April that Norström had several engagements with organisations interested in intellectual property issues. Peter Danowsky, Monique Wadsted and Henrik Pontén from the prosecution side are also members of one of the organisations, the Swedish Copyright Association (SFU).[99] Wadsted commented that all intellectual property lawyers in Stockholm are part of the association.[100] According to Norström, the organisations are involved in discussion about copyright, while the earlier lay judges's organisation advocates further copyright protection.[101] Norström however also sits in the board of the Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property,[99] which along with the SFU are the Swedish branches of International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI) and Association littéraire et artistique internationale (ALAI). AIPPI's website states that "the objective of AIPPI is to improve and promote the protection of intellectual property on both an international and national basis", and ALAI's president Victor Nabhan commented that his organisation is dedicated mostly to defending copyright holders' interests.[102] Several legal experts have commented that the judge should not have taken the case because of the potential conflict of interest or should at least have mentioned it in the beginning of the trial, and that there are grounds for a retrial.[99][103][104] The district court itself however defended judges' membership in these types of organisations,[105] and it is not uncommon for lay judges to even be sitting municipal politicians.[106][107]

Following the discovery on 23 April, Peter Sunde's lawyer Peter Althin announced that he would request for a retrial.[99] The Swedish Parliamentary Ombudsman decided not to investigate the bias since the question had already been requested to be taken up in the Svea Court of Appeal.[108] The court of appeal received the case on 18 May and assigned it to judge Ulrika Ihrfelt. On the question of bias, Ihrfelt stated she was a member of the Swedish Copyright Association in 2005 when working in the supreme court, but didn't consider herself biased because of this.[109] The president of the court was requested to reassign the case,[110] and on 20 May it was reassigned to three judges from another court of appeal department. The district court along with the prosecutor formally defended judges' memberships in these types of organisations as a way to gain knowledge on copyright issues.[105][111] The court of appeal considered it a priority case,[112] and ruled on 25 June that the judge's memberships do not constitute bias and that there would be no retrial in the district court.[113][114]

During the preparation for the appeal trial, bias allegations were also made on the court of appeal. In Swedish appeal proceedings for criminal cases where the sentence is greater than a fine, the court usually consists of three professional judges and two lay judges.[115] Judge Ihrfelt, again appointed to the case, informed the parties in mid September 2009 that one of the appointed lay judges is working for the music streaming service Spotify, which is partly owned by record companies.[116] The lay judge himself didn't feel biased because of his work,[117] but prosecuting attorney Danowsky commented that anyone both judging the case and working for Spotify has a conflict of interest.[118] Later on the same week, defense attorney Samuelsson submitted allegations to the appeal court of Ihrfelt and another professional judge being biased for their membership in the same interest groups judge Norström was investigated for.[119] In the court's opinion, the judges' memberships did not constitute bias, whereas the lay judges's impartiality was questionable and he was dismissed.[120][121] The court's decision was appealed, and in May 2010 the supreme court affirmed the appeal court's decision on the bias question.[122][123][124]

Parties edit

Defendants edit

Plaintiffs edit

The criminal charges against The Pirate Bay are directly supported by the following prosecution witnesses:[125]

Appeal edit

After sentencing, the defendants decided to appeal the verdict of the first trial. The appeal started on 28 September 2010 and concluded on 15 October 2010.[127] On 26 November 2010, the verdict was announced. In the verdict, the court found that “The Pirate Bay has facilitated illegal file sharing in a way that results in criminal liability for those who run the service.”[128] Under the verdict, the sentences of three of the defendants would be reduced and the total fines would be increased. The fourth defendant, Gottfrid Svartholm, was not present at the time due to medical reasons. His time for appeal expired on 14 October 2011, and the original 2009 sentence became legally binding for him.[129]

The sentence from the appeal traded jail time for increased fines. After the initial trial, each defendant was to serve a year of jail time and pay fines just under one million dollars each.[130] After the appeal, Fredrik Neij was sentenced to 10 months, Peter Sunde to eight months, and Carl Lundstrom to four months in prison.[131] The Svea Court of Appeal decided to grant all Nordic companies their full request in compensation for copyright infringement due to The Pirate Bay, with outside companies being granted smaller gains in compensation. The total fine for the three defendants was increased from 32 million Kronor to 46 million Kronor (US$6.5 million).[128] Each defendant was issued different sentences because of individual contribution toward facilitating illegal file sharing. Instead of issuing all defendants the same sentence, they were each judged on their contribution and sentenced accordingly.[130] However, the fine is to be paid by the three defendants present at the sentencing.[128] The verdict was appealed to the Supreme Court.[132]

Events during the trial edit

Support campaign edit

On 18 February 2009 the Norwegian socialist party Red began a global campaign in support of The Pirate Bay and filesharers worldwide that lasted until 1 May. The campaign was timed to coincide with the trial.[133] Through the website filesharer.org individuals were encouraged to upload their photographs, as "mugshots", to "let the music and movie industry know who the file-sharers are." The site encourages participation urging people to "Upload a picture of yourself and show them what a criminal looks like!". Red politician Elin Volder Rutle is the initiator of the campaign and she states to the media that "If the guys behind Pirate Bay are criminals, then so am I, and so are most other Norwegians."[134]

IFPI website hack edit

The website of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) was hacked and defaced with a message to Håkan Roswall, the prosecutor in the trial. The website subsequently became inaccessible, possibly owing to a denial-of-service attack. It was shortly brought back online. Peter Sunde, one of the defendants, responded to news of the attack with the comment "Our case is going quite well as most of you have noticed. In the light of that it feels very bad that people are hacking web sites which actually puts us in a worse light than we need to be in." To the perpetrators of the attack he also pleaded, "If anyone involved in the acts going on is reading this—please stop, for our sake. We don’t need that kind of support."[3]

Flower storm edit

During the ninth day of the trial, after the testimony of professor emeritus Roger Wallis had been completed, he was asked according to Swedish court procedures if he wanted any compensation for appearing in court. He declined this but commented to the court that they were welcome to send flowers to his wife if they wished. This was rejected by the judge but quickly caught on amongst supporters of The Pirate Bay following the proceedings via live feeds and other Internet services. A channel was started on the EFnet network on IRC and a website followed and by the evening flowers for almost SEK 40.000 (US$5,000, €3,000) had been ordered for the couple through Internet florists such as Interflora and local florists.[135]

Bonnier Amigo website hack edit

The website of independent record company Bonnier Amigo was hacked on 1 March 2009. A similar message to the one on the hacked IFPI website was published, but this time directed to prosecuting attorney Peter Danowsky representing the record labels:[136][137]

Stop lying Peter Danowsky!

You censor us, we censor you. Freedom of speech goes both ways.
This is a war you can never win. The people always win one way or another.
The people will always have their freedom.
Brothers stand behind us and together we will win this fight!

// CHHB - In times of darkness we appear once again.

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January 01, 1970
pirate, trial, joint, criminal, civil, prosecution, sweden, four, individuals, charged, promoting, copyright, infringement, others, with, torrent, tracking, website, pirate, criminal, charges, were, supported, consortium, intellectual, rights, holders, interna. The Pirate Bay trial was a joint criminal and civil prosecution in Sweden of four individuals charged for promoting the copyright infringement of others with the torrent tracking website The Pirate Bay 1 2 The criminal charges were supported by a consortium of intellectual rights holders led by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI who filed individual civil compensation claims against the owners of The Pirate Bay 3 The Pirate Bay trialProtesters showing support for The Pirate Bay on the first day of the trial CourtStockholm District Court SwedenFull case nameB 13301 06Decided17 April 2009Court membershipJudge s sittingTomas Norstrom Swedish prosecutors filed charges on 31 January 2008 against Fredrik Neij Gottfrid Svartholm and Peter Sunde who ran the site and Carl Lundstrom a Swedish businessman who through his businesses sold services to the site The prosecutor claimed the four worked together to administer host and develop the site and thereby facilitated other people s breach of copyright law Some 34 cases of copyright infringements were originally listed of which 21 were related to music files 9 to movies and 4 to games 2 One case involving music files was later dropped by the copyright holder who made the file available again on the website of The Pirate Bay In addition claims for damages of 117 million kronor US 13 million were filed 4 The case was decided jointly by a professional judge and three appointed lay judges 5 The trial started on 16 February 2009 in the Stockholm District Court Sweden The hearings ended on 3 March 2009 and the verdict was announced on Friday 17 April 2009 Peter Sunde Fredrik Neij Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundstrom were all found guilty and sentenced to one year imprisonment and pay a fine of 30 million SEK about 2 7 million or US 3 5 million 6 All the defendants appealed the verdict and in November 2010 the appeal court shortened the prison sentences but increased damages On 1 February 2012 the Supreme Court of Sweden refused to hear an appeal in the case prompting the site to change its official domain name from thepiratebay org to thepiratebay se 7 Contents 1 Background 2 Trial and courtroom charges 2 1 First day of the trial 2 2 Second day of the trial 2 3 Third day of the trial 2 3 1 King Kong defense 2 4 Fourth day of the trial 2 5 Fifth day of the trial 2 6 Seventh eighth and ninth days of the trial 3 Verdict and reactions 3 1 Subsequent events 3 1 1 Gottfrid Svartholm arrest 2012 3 1 2 Fredrik Neij arrest 2014 4 Bias allegations 5 Parties 5 1 Defendants 5 2 Plaintiffs 6 Appeal 7 Events during the trial 7 1 Support campaign 7 2 IFPI website hack 7 3 Flower storm 7 4 Bonnier Amigo website hack 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksBackground editMain articles The Pirate Bay and The Pirate Bay raid The Pirate Bay is a Swedish website that indexes and tracks BitTorrent files It bills itself as the galaxy s largest BitTorrent tracker 8 and is ranked as the 73rd most popular website by Alexa Internet 9 The website is funded primarily with advertisements shown next to torrent listings Initially established in September 2003 by the Swedish anti copyright organization Piratbyran The Piracy Bureau it has been operating as a separate organization since October 2004 nbsp Swedes protesting the police raid during a demonstration on 3 June 2006 On 31 May 2006 the Swedish police organized a raid on The Pirate Bay in 12 different premises 10 confiscating 186 servers 11 12 and causing it to go offline for three days Upon reopening the site s number of visitors more than doubled 13 the increased popularity attributed to greater exposure through the media coverage The raid alleged by The Pirate Bay to be politically motivated and under pressure from the Motion Picture Association of America MPAA 14 was reported as a success by the MPAA in the immediate aftermath but with the website being restored within days and file sharing firmly in focus in the Swedish media with TorrentFreak calling the raid highly unsuccessful 15 16 The police however conducted a preliminary investigation on the confiscated material and by interrogating associated people In late 2007 a four thousand page report was produced by the prosecutor in preparation for a trial 17 containing email and SMS messages payment documents police interrogation records and screenshots of The Pirate Bay site 18 19 Trial and courtroom charges editSee also Judicial system of Sweden On 31 January 2008 Swedish prosecutors filed charges against four individuals they associated with The Pirate Bay for promoting other people s infringements of copyright laws 1 2 One of the artists represented by IFPI Max Peezay withdrew from the case decreasing his distributor s compensation demand by 120 000 SEK Peezay hadn t been asked about participating in the case and he in fact supports file sharing for private use 20 Peezay noted however that being unfamiliar with the site his withdrawal shouldn t be interpreted as a sign of support for their case 21 The trial began in February 2009 The evidence used in the trial was based on the material acquired in the 2006 raid 10 The Swedish national television broadcaster Sveriges Television considered the trial important 22 and provided a live online feed of the entire trial 23 which had never been done in Sweden before 24 The live audio and archive sections done in cooperation with Dagens Eko were part of the 24 Direkt program which became one of their most viewed online content during the trial second only to Melodifestivalen 25 The trial was also broadcast live by Swedish public radio 26 The defendants referred to the trial as a Spectrial which is a portmanteau of trial and spectacle 27 28 and set up a blog to inform users on the event 29 The term has also caught on with some bloggers and supporters 30 First day of the trial edit nbsp Peter Sunde Gottfrid Svartholm Rick Falkvinge and Marcin de Kaminski sv at the demonstration by the court house on the first day of the trial On 16 February 2009 defence lawyer Per E Samuelson stressed to the court that file sharing services can be used both legally and illegally Samuelson argued that it is legal to offer a service that can be used in both a legal and illegal way according to Swedish law and that The Pirate Bay s services can be compared to making cars that can be driven faster than the speed limit Defense attorney Jonas Nilsson insisted that the individual Internet users who use Pirate Bay services must answer for the material they have in their possession or the files they plan to share with others 31 Second day of the trial edit On 17 February 2009 the second day of the trial half of the charges against The Pirate Bay were dropped 32 According to defense lawyer Per Samuelson This is a sensation It is very rare to win half the case in just one and a half days and it is clear the prosecutor took strong note of what we said yesterday Peter Danowsky legal counsel for the music companies stated It s a largely technical issue that changes nothing in terms of our compensation claims and has no bearing whatsoever on the main case against The Pirate Bay In fact it simplifies the prosecutor s case by allowing him to focus on the main issue which is the making available of copyrighted works 33 The prosecutor was unable to prove that the torrent files brought as evidence were actually using The Pirate Bay s tracker Furthermore prosecutor Hakan Roswall did not adequately explain the function of DHT which allows for so called trackerless torrents These shortcomings in the evidence resulted in prosecutor Hakan Roswall having to drop all charges relating to assisting copyright infringement leaving assisting making available as the remaining charge Roswall stated that everything related to reproduction will be removed from the claim 34 Sanna Wolk a doctor in law and researcher at Stockholm University observed that this is not surprising at least for those who follow the matter We knew that The Pirate Bay wasn t making any copies directly 4 Third day of the trial edit On the third day of The Pirate Bay trial prosecution witnesses claimed damages on the basis that it should have obtained worldwide licenses for the content it distributed Where content wasn t officially available a Beatles song for example it should be charged at 10 times the going rate This calculation underlines the prosecution s demand for 117 million SEK US 12 9 million 10 2 million in compensation and damages 35 King Kong defense edit On day three of the trial defense attorney Per Samuelson presented an argument later dubbed the King Kong defense 36 EU directive 2000 31 EC 37 says that the person who provides an information service is not responsible for the information that is being transferred In order to be responsible the service provider must initiate the transfer But the admins of The Pirate Bay don t initiate transfers It s the users that do and they are physically identifiable people They call themselves names like King Kong According to legal procedure the accusations must be against an individual and there must be a close tie between the perpetrators of a crime and those who are assisting This tie has not been shown The prosecutor must show that Carl Lundstrom personally has interacted with the user King Kong who may very well be found in the jungles of Cambodia 38 Samuelson was referring to a real Pirate Bay user who posts via the username King Kong who Samuelson hypothesizes could be in Cambodia He used this scenario to illustrate that Lundstrom had no control over the actions undertaken by Pirate Bay users His main objection was that although the prosecutor had said that the accused would be tried individually he had not once referred to them individually but always as them they or Pirate Bay Samuelson said the persons behind The Pirate Bay could not be held collectively responsible for a crime committed by other identifiable individuals such as King Kong 39 The term King Kong defense was quickly popularized by blogs file sharing news feeds and media reports on the Pirate Bay trial 40 Amused online commentators compared it to the Chewbacca defense from the TV series South Park citing a reference to the jungles of Cambodia as the kind of extraneous detail that makes the Chewbacca defense hilarious 41 In its April verdict the court found that because the defendants indeed had collective responsibility for the site and knew some torrent files on it pointed to copyrighted material the EU directive did not apply 42 Fourth day of the trial edit On 19 February 2009 the fourth day of the trial Fredrik was questioned several times It came to the court s attention that Tobias Andersson a future witness in the case was in the court where he was later asked to leave the room When it was movie industry lawyer Monique Wadsted s turn she introduced new evidence without warning Noting the breach of protocol the presiding judge asked if it was acceptable for the court to be considering evidence that was not already presented pre trial 43 Fifth day of the trial edit Day five of the proceedings saw conflict as the prosecution again attempted to introduce evidence that had not been shared with both the court and the defense during pre trial The defense objected vehemently with defense lawyer Peter Althin equating the tactic to something out of the old Perry Mason TV show Suddenly the door opens and in walks an entirely new witness The presiding judge stopped the case to deliberate the matter and found in favor of the defense instructing the prosecution to immediately hand over all material they planned to use 44 The prosecution and the defense spent the remainder of the day delivering conflicting portrayals of the Pirate Bay The prosecution attempted to show the Pirate Bay as an immensely profitable business that made its money helping others violate copyright law The defense attempted to show the Pirate Bay as nothing more than a search engine no different from Google and thus subject to the same protections Seventh eighth and ninth days of the trial edit On days seven to nine the court heard expert witnesses called by the prosecution and the defense 45 They cited contradicting academic research on the effects of file sharing on sales in the music and film industry globally 46 and regionally in Sweden 47 Verdict and reactions editThe four operators of the site were convicted by Stockholm district court on 17 April 2009 and sentenced to one year imprisonment each and a total of 30 million Swedish kronor approximately US 3 5 million 2 7 million in fines and damages The court found that the defendants were all guilty of accessory to crime against copyright law strengthened by the commercial and organized nature of the activity 48 The court however never presented its corpus delicti that is it never attempted to prove that a crime was committed but it succeeded in proving that someone was an accessory to that crime Prosecutor Hakan Roswall cited in his closing arguments a Supreme Court of Sweden opinion that a person holding the jacket of someone committing battery can be held responsible for the battery 49 50 In its verdict the court stated that responsibility for assistance can strike someone who has only insignificantly assisted in the principal crime 42 referring to a Supreme Court precedent where an accountant was sentenced for accessory to crime even though his actions were not criminal per se 51 The court rejected the charge of preparation to crime against copyright law The lawyers of all four defendants appealed the verdict 52 with Lundstrom s lawyers filing their appeal immediately on the day the verdict was given 53 The entertainment industry lawyers appealed as well on reintroducing the dismissed charge and on the method of calculating damages which in their opinion does not fully cover the lost income 54 Company Nationality Type of Industry Compensation for damages SEK Costs of litigation SEK 20th Century Fox nbsp Motion Picture 10 867 460 1 285 354 91 333 500 39 444 89 Mars Media nbsp Motion Picture 4 450 991 526 443 45 333 500 39 444 89 Columbia Pictures nbsp Motion Picture 4 184 444 494 917 45 333 500 39 444 89 Yellow Bird nbsp Motion Picture 3 150 000 372 568 01 484 920 57 354 18 Warner Bros nbsp Motion Picture 2 898 225 342 789 18 592 000 70 019 13 EMI Music Sweden nbsp Music 1 798 975 212 774 77 264 000 31 224 74 Warner Music Sweden nbsp Music 1 616 759 191 223 07 54 000 6 386 88 Metro Goldwyn Mayer nbsp Motion Picture 1 394 831 372 568 01 Universal Music nbsp Music 814 339 96 316 40 156 000 18 450 98 Sony Music Entertainment Sweden nbsp nbsp nbsp Music 457 675 54 131 76 468 000 55 352 96 Playground Music nbsp Music 310 794 36 759 33 156 000 18 450 98 Nordisk Film nbsp Motion Picture 225 000 26 612 00 53 880 6 372 68 Bonnier Amigo Music Group nbsp Music 47 349 5 600 22 102 000 12 064 10 Blizzard Entertainment nbsp Video games 25 000 2 956 88 Activision nbsp Video games 12 500 1 478 44 Total 32 216 842 55 3 810 465 01 3 368 800 398 446 70 File sharing researcher Daniel Johansson called the ruling the most important file sharing related verdict in Europe so far comparing it to the Napster verdict in the US 56 The sentence is the longest ever awarded under Swedish copyright law 57 and the prison time and damage compensation high by Swedish standards 58 While most legal experts expected the court to find the defendants guilty 59 they were surprised at the harsh verdict 60 61 Sociology of law professor Hakan Hyden criticised the exceptionally harsh sentence on both the prison time and large amount of compensation awarded 62 and some legal analysts expect the punishments to be radically lowered in higher courts 63 The international public following the trial received the verdict with varying opinions Some high profile copyright holders publicly defended the verdict with former Beatles member Paul McCartney commenting to the BBC that if you get on a bus you ve got to pay And I think it s fair you should pay for your ticket 64 Mark Mulligan from Forrester Research considered the verdict very important for music industry PR 65 and copyright holder organisations indeed praised it as a landmark verdict 66 67 Likewise The European Association of Internet Service Providers welcomed the verdict commending judicial resolution to copyright infringement issues over internet filtering or three strikes policies 68 The Economist went further by criticising that the sentence might not have been strong enough to act as a deterrent for setting up similar services in the future 69 Some copyright holders took a different view however Snow Patrol vocalist Gary Lightbody commented in interview that they shouldn t have been jailed the punishment doesn t fit the crime 70 In a column in Dagens Nyheter composer and professor Roger Wallis who was involved in the trial condemned the verdict and its effects as paralyzing Swedish IT innovation on new ways of doing business 71 At the end of May 2009 Swedish Minister for Culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth made a speech to The Swedish Society of Popular Music Composers expressing her opinion that I was among those pleased about the Pirate Bay verdict 72 In accordance with the ministerstyre in the Constitution of Sweden it is unconstitutional for ministers to influence ongoing cases and many political commentators criticised the minister s statement Max Andersson member of the Committee on the Constitution in the Parliament of Sweden requested the committee to review the incident 73 The committee pointed out the independence of judicial bodies and the government and reminded ministers to exercise caution in their statements but saw no need for further action or comment 74 Subsequent events edit Over 25 000 people joined the Swedish Pirate Party in the ten days following the guilty verdict 75 raising its membership to over 40 000 members and making it the fourth largest Swedish party by membership count at the time and the party with the largest youth organisation 76 In Stockholm and other cities the Pirate Party organized protests against the court s verdict Over 1000 protesters gathered in the streets of Stockholm the following day 77 78 Protest leader Malin Littorin Ferm said we young people have a whole platform on the Internet where we have all our social contacts it is there that we live The state is trying to control the Internet and by extension our private lives 79 Pirate Party Chairman Rickard Falkvinge claimed at the protests that the establishment and the politicians have declared war against our whole generation 80 Following the conviction the IFPI demanded that Swedish internet service providers block The Pirate Bay but the ISPs have refused to do this 81 Jon Karlung managing director of Bahnhof stated that we will not censor sites for our customers that is not our job I am against anything that contradicts the principle of a free and open Internet Several Swedish file sharing sites have closed voluntarily with The Pirate Bay verdict as a deterrent and as a result of further police investigation 82 On 20 April 2009 Anonymous mobilized Operation Baylout which included a DDoS attack on the IFPI International website causing the site to go offline for a few hours They released a statement asking supporters of file sharing to refrain from making any industry related media purchases during the months of April and May 83 84 Two artists originally mentioned in the indictment Advance Patrol and Max Peezay later went on to release their work on The Pirate Bay in spring 2009 85 86 Gottfrid Svartholm arrest 2012 edit Gottfrid Svartholm one of the TPB founding members was arrested on 2 September 2012 in Phnom Penh Cambodia while evading Swedish authorities following the 2009 verdict and conviction A group of Anonymous hackers claimed to have attacked websites and internet systems belonging to the Cambodian government in the wake of the arrest Although at the time of the arrest an extradition treaty was non existent between Cambodia and Sweden negotiations were entered into for the purpose of expelling Svartholm 87 Fredrik Neij arrest 2014 edit Fredrik Neij the last of the website s founders to be detained after dodging the 2009 conviction for copyright violations was detained and later arrested in November 2014 in Nong Khai Thailand Swedish officials were brought in and Thai officials stated he would be extradited within the month 88 Bias allegations editIn mid 2008 after the indictment had been served it was discovered that the main police investigator in the preliminary investigation had started working for one of the plaintiffs Warner Brothers before the date of the indictment Sunde s lawyer Peter Althin questioned the neutrality and reliability of the preliminary investigation in the event that the investigator had entered the new employment during the investigation and suspected the job might have been a reward for good work in The Pirate Bay investigation 89 Althin believed that the investigation might have to be redone if that was the case 90 The prosecutor Hakan Roswall responded that it wouldn t have posed problems for the investigation because the police were working under his directive and the investigator s superior officer brushed off the incident as nothing remarkable Warner Brothers commented merely that the investigator hadn t received any compensation during the time he worked for the Swedish police 91 According to Roswall this type of concurrent employment would not be an individual incident but that the decision of possible bias would be for the court to decide and that the investigator is not a key witness in the case 89 92 The investigator could not be reached during the trial and was taken off the witness list 93 94 95 Only days before the trial began one of the three appointed lay judges was discovered to be a member of a composers association that among others works on protecting copyright 96 After discussing with judge Tomas Norstrom the problem the membership could pose to the trial the composer recused himself from acting as a lay judge in the case and he was replaced with another 97 98 In the aftermath of the trial presiding judge Tomas Norstrom the same judge that ordered the 2006 raid on The Pirate Bay s servers came under scrutiny after allegations of bias Sveriges Radio P3 News organized an investigation that found on 23 April that Norstrom had several engagements with organisations interested in intellectual property issues Peter Danowsky Monique Wadsted and Henrik Ponten from the prosecution side are also members of one of the organisations the Swedish Copyright Association SFU 99 Wadsted commented that all intellectual property lawyers in Stockholm are part of the association 100 According to Norstrom the organisations are involved in discussion about copyright while the earlier lay judges s organisation advocates further copyright protection 101 Norstrom however also sits in the board of the Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property 99 which along with the SFU are the Swedish branches of International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property AIPPI and Association litteraire et artistique internationale ALAI AIPPI s website states that the objective of AIPPI is to improve and promote the protection of intellectual property on both an international and national basis and ALAI s president Victor Nabhan commented that his organisation is dedicated mostly to defending copyright holders interests 102 Several legal experts have commented that the judge should not have taken the case because of the potential conflict of interest or should at least have mentioned it in the beginning of the trial and that there are grounds for a retrial 99 103 104 The district court itself however defended judges membership in these types of organisations 105 and it is not uncommon for lay judges to even be sitting municipal politicians 106 107 Following the discovery on 23 April Peter Sunde s lawyer Peter Althin announced that he would request for a retrial 99 The Swedish Parliamentary Ombudsman decided not to investigate the bias since the question had already been requested to be taken up in the Svea Court of Appeal 108 The court of appeal received the case on 18 May and assigned it to judge Ulrika Ihrfelt On the question of bias Ihrfelt stated she was a member of the Swedish Copyright Association in 2005 when working in the supreme court but didn t consider herself biased because of this 109 The president of the court was requested to reassign the case 110 and on 20 May it was reassigned to three judges from another court of appeal department The district court along with the prosecutor formally defended judges memberships in these types of organisations as a way to gain knowledge on copyright issues 105 111 The court of appeal considered it a priority case 112 and ruled on 25 June that the judge s memberships do not constitute bias and that there would be no retrial in the district court 113 114 During the preparation for the appeal trial bias allegations were also made on the court of appeal In Swedish appeal proceedings for criminal cases where the sentence is greater than a fine the court usually consists of three professional judges and two lay judges 115 Judge Ihrfelt again appointed to the case informed the parties in mid September 2009 that one of the appointed lay judges is working for the music streaming service Spotify which is partly owned by record companies 116 The lay judge himself didn t feel biased because of his work 117 but prosecuting attorney Danowsky commented that anyone both judging the case and working for Spotify has a conflict of interest 118 Later on the same week defense attorney Samuelsson submitted allegations to the appeal court of Ihrfelt and another professional judge being biased for their membership in the same interest groups judge Norstrom was investigated for 119 In the court s opinion the judges memberships did not constitute bias whereas the lay judges s impartiality was questionable and he was dismissed 120 121 The court s decision was appealed and in May 2010 the supreme court affirmed the appeal court s decision on the bias question 122 123 124 Parties editDefendants edit nbsp Fredrik Neij nbsp Gottfrid Svartholm nbsp Peter Sunde nbsp Carl Lundstrom Plaintiffs edit The criminal charges against The Pirate Bay are directly supported by the following prosecution witnesses 125 IFPI representing Sony BMG Music Entertainment Sweden AB Universal Music AB Playground Music Scandinavia AB Bonnier Amigo Music Group AB EMI Music Sweden AB Warner Bros Music Sweden AB Antipiratbyran representing Yellow Bird Films AB Nordisk Film Henrik Danstrup MAQS Law Firm Advokatbyra KB 126 representing Warner Bros Entertainment Inc MGM Pictures Inc Columbia Pictures Industries Inc 20th Century Fox Films Co Mars Media Beteiligungs GmbH amp Co Filmproduktions Blizzard Entertainment Inc Sierra Entertainment Inc Activision Publishing IncAppeal editAfter sentencing the defendants decided to appeal the verdict of the first trial The appeal started on 28 September 2010 and concluded on 15 October 2010 127 On 26 November 2010 the verdict was announced In the verdict the court found that The Pirate Bay has facilitated illegal file sharing in a way that results in criminal liability for those who run the service 128 Under the verdict the sentences of three of the defendants would be reduced and the total fines would be increased The fourth defendant Gottfrid Svartholm was not present at the time due to medical reasons His time for appeal expired on 14 October 2011 and the original 2009 sentence became legally binding for him 129 The sentence from the appeal traded jail time for increased fines After the initial trial each defendant was to serve a year of jail time and pay fines just under one million dollars each 130 After the appeal Fredrik Neij was sentenced to 10 months Peter Sunde to eight months and Carl Lundstrom to four months in prison 131 The Svea Court of Appeal decided to grant all Nordic companies their full request in compensation for copyright infringement due to The Pirate Bay with outside companies being granted smaller gains in compensation The total fine for the three defendants was increased from 32 million Kronor to 46 million Kronor US 6 5 million 128 Each defendant was issued different sentences because of individual contribution toward facilitating illegal file sharing Instead of issuing all defendants the same sentence they were each judged on their contribution and sentenced accordingly 130 However the fine is to be paid by the three defendants present at the sentencing 128 The verdict was appealed to the Supreme Court 132 Events during the trial editSupport campaign edit On 18 February 2009 the Norwegian socialist party Red began a global campaign in support of The Pirate Bay and filesharers worldwide that lasted until 1 May The campaign was timed to coincide with the trial 133 Through the website filesharer org individuals were encouraged to upload their photographs as mugshots to let the music and movie industry know who the file sharers are The site encourages participation urging people to Upload a picture of yourself and show them what a criminal looks like Red politician Elin Volder Rutle is the initiator of the campaign and she states to the media that If the guys behind Pirate Bay are criminals then so am I and so are most other Norwegians 134 IFPI website hack edit The website of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI was hacked and defaced with a message to Hakan Roswall the prosecutor in the trial The website subsequently became inaccessible possibly owing to a denial of service attack It was shortly brought back online Peter Sunde one of the defendants responded to news of the attack with the comment Our case is going quite well as most of you have noticed In the light of that it feels very bad that people are hacking web sites which actually puts us in a worse light than we need to be in To the perpetrators of the attack he also pleaded If anyone involved in the acts going on is reading this please stop for our sake We don t need that kind of support 3 Flower storm edit During the ninth day of the trial after the testimony of professor emeritus Roger Wallis had been completed he was asked according to Swedish court procedures if he wanted any compensation for appearing in court He declined this but commented to the court that they were welcome to send flowers to his wife if they wished This was rejected by the judge but quickly caught on amongst supporters of The Pirate Bay following the proceedings via live feeds and other Internet services A channel was started on the EFnet network on IRC and a website followed and by the evening flowers for almost SEK 40 000 US 5 000 3 000 had been ordered for the couple through Internet florists such as Interflora and local florists 135 Bonnier Amigo website hack edit The website of independent record company Bonnier Amigo was hacked on 1 March 2009 A similar message to the one on the hacked IFPI website was published but this time directed to prosecuting attorney Peter Danowsky representing the record labels 136 137 Stop lying Peter Danowsky You censor us we censor you Freedom of speech goes both ways This is a war you can never win The people always win one way or another The people will always have their freedom Brothers stand behind us and together we will win this fight CHHB In times of darkness we appear once again See also editFile sharing and the law Judicial system of Sweden Steal This Episode Telecoms Package Timeline of file sharing TPB AFKReferences edit a b Kravets David 31 January 2008 Pirate Bay Future Uncertain After Operators Busted Threat Level Wired News Blogs Retrieved 28 September 2008 a b c Larsson Linus 31 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