17 tháng 4 này sẽ tuyên án. Trích từ một editorial của Wired:
When Swedish authorities raided The Pirate Bay and its servers in 2006 — paving the way for ongoing criminal trial that ended Tuesday — the pirates were unbowed, quickly resurrecting the site and setting their reverse-DNS to read: “hey.mpaa.and.apb.bite.my.shiny.metal.ass.thepiratebay.org.”
“Even though no one spreads more culture than we do, it is the film and music-mob that are trying to close us down,” co-founder Fredrik Neij said, in a speech outside Swedish Parliament after the raid. “This time we’re firing with the big cannons and saying, ‘In your face, Hollywood!’”
But all that swagger evaporated like salt water on a beached schooner once The Pirate Bay landed on the witness stand in Stockholm, Sweden, where the three admitted founders — and a fourth man accused of financing them — face up to two years in prison each on allegations of facilitating copyright infringement. The trial wrapped up Tuesday, and a verdict is expected in April.
In the courtroom, the defendants quickly abandoned their revolutionary, free-culture ideals in favor of the simpler philosophy embraced by criminal defendants since time immemorial: I’m Not Responsible.
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