Think of Magnus, Stop the Pirate Bay!

 



Recently I have been following the spectacle of the Pirate Bay trial . The Swedish pirate guys have been truly unique in that they have not gone to court burdened by shame, with regret and wanting to get away easy, but with heads held high and guns blazing, confronting and ridiculing the failing business of the media industry. See for yourself in Peter Sunde's blog (translated here), copyriot (translated here, copyriot was probably also involved in the ground-breaking Pirate Bureu Walpurgis ceremony) and torrentfreak.

Many things have been said about the spectrial, partly on bloggy (translated here) and twitter, and my small contribution (also available in higher resolution) is a mashup from a prosecution statement. The has-been artist Magnus Uggla is not selling well anymore, and the causality seems obvious between this and the existance of the Pirate Bay, right? Think of Magnus, stop the Pirate Bay!

This week's "I met Lassie" (celebrity spotting) is that I again attended the Swedes meetup at Hell Hunt and apart from an exciting debate about the Pirate Bay, I had the honor of discussing with a co-partner of the same law firm as plaintiffs Hollywood representative lawyer Monique Wadsted.

PS. Other Swedes in Estonia also react to SVT's Hasse Svens dishonest reporting