.. a parte Gottfrid che tocca il merito della questione...
Trial Shows Pirate Bay's Crew Is All Hat and No Rum.
Trial Shows Pirate Bay's Crew Is All Hat and No Rum.
Defendant Peter Sunde, The Pirate Bay's most public face, testified that he was "only" a spokesman who never actively participated in running the site. The prosecution produced evidence to the contrary, but nothing so damning in our eyes as Sunde's self-portrait as a stuffed-shirt spouting defiant talking points that he didn't believe.
For his part, Neij cast himself as a harried system administrator, concerned only with the technical challenge of keeping an enormously popular site running smoothly.
And when Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was confronted with his once-endearing habit of publicly ridiculing copyright owners foolish enough to send a takedown notice to Pirate Bay, you could hear the back-pedaling from across the Atlantic. "They still don't understand that they have to write to the persons who share the material, not us," he said.
It was a theme that echoed through the defense: Don't prosecute us, prosecute our 22 million users. They're the crooks!
As for Neij's electrifying 2006 speech? He explained in court that he just read a piece of paper thrust in front of him by the Pirate Bureau, the Swedish open-culture activist party who help start The Pirate Bay five years ago. He didn't mean it.
