Came into the world today on the way to breakfast. Left the repast thinking there wasn't all that much to write about. Wrong oh. There are two major developments.
In the Pirate Bay case. Last week, the recording industry cheered as the executives of the Swedish website Pirate Bay faced imprisonment. Greed satiated by fair public trial. But one big screw up now faces Swedish justice. This just out into the news.
The judge, Tomas Norstram, failed to disclose before trial that he was a current member of two Swedish copyright association. And three representatives of the plaintiff companies, also happened to be members of the very same association.
Europeans have been very quick to state that the justice system of other nations was corrupt and biased. Pointy fingers waved at the United States court system.
Norstram stated that he didn't see any conflict of interest in this. Call it a hunch. I don't think the Swedish Supreme Court will see it exactly that way. A Supreme Court of any nation seeks to protect the integrity of its judicial image. Norstram could very well state that he is an unbiased neutral observer. To say that the fact of his association membership doesn't shed bias on the trial proves nothing, shows if not corrupt, the guy is a moron. It was a bonehead decision not to disclose this membership as a factual statement before trial.
At the very least, it will be a new trial.
1 comment:
I just love those Pirate Bay guys. They have such a positive attitude towards life.
Did you read about their latest post-conviction, pre-appeal claim?
It turns out they aren't really pirates after all, they're performance artists playing pirates, this entire piracy episode was all just art and of course, artists doing art have a lot more leeway under the law than pirates doing piracy.
I really love those guys! It would be a crime to put them in jail.
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