YARR!

Speaking of pirates and the internet, anybody have thoughts on the Pirate Bay verdict in Sweden?

But back to Somalia: wow, what a surprise that
a) shippers would sooner play the odds and cough up some ransom here or there than interrupt their supply chain
and
b) america will kill the fuck out of any skinnies that they've got in their sights when american lives on at risk

The main reason that we are talking about this story now is because the Maersk Alabama was a US-flagged ship with US crew. Nowadays, that is increasingly rare, so don't expect the same ruckus when a Panamanian-flagged ship manned by Filipino's gets hijacked near the Horn of Africa.

Speaking of pirates and the internet, anybody have thoughts on the Pirate Bay verdict in Sweden?

I think it's the legal right of the Swedish courts to determine, with no measurable evidence, that their country's laws have been broken.  I think it's also the legal right of the defendants to escalate this case to a higher court.

And I think it's telling that - even with the damages and jail time awarded/assigned - there was no shutdown or suspension order given.

edit:  Personally, from everything I've read, I would not have been able to come to the same verdict, were I sitting on that panel of judges.  Not only was there a lack of evidence that these 4 individuals had specifically allowed for illegal activity to occur, but there were any number of fuck-ups by the prosecution that would have resulted in a mistrial here in the US.

Finally, I don't think being cocky helped Reiser, and I don't think being cocky helped TPB.

Posting their emails was rather stupid.

Reading their posted emails was fun.

Believing the situation as presented ... priceless.

~shrug

~shrug

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Speaking of pirates and the internet, anybody have thoughts on the Pirate Bay verdict in Sweden?

I disagree with it but since it's in Sweden and the laws are different, I can't really judge. I just think one year is excessive.