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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Demands a “Fair Trial”
Notes that Judge was a member of same group as plaintiffs, and that Jim Keyzer, the Chief Swedish police investigator in the preliminary investigation of the BitTorrent tracker site became an employee of Warner Bros soon afterwards. Peter Sunde, aka Brokep, one of the four co-founders of Swedish BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay, has written a new blog post demanding that he and the other defendants recently found guilty for the site’s alleged facilitation of copyright infringement receive a “fair trial,” nothing more. “Due to the past weeks findings on the biased judge we’ve all demanded a fair trial.
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A few days after the verdict in the Pirate Bay trial was made public, judge Tomas Norström was heavily criticized for his involvement with pro-copyright lobby groups. To everyone’s surprise, Norström never declared these activities before he took on the case. Together with several of the lawyers who represented the movie and music industries, the judge was a member of the Swedish Association of copyright (SFU) and the Swedish Association for Protection of Industrial Property (SFIR).
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