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A comment on Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Requests Pardon.

Re:Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Requests Pardon by kahawe on Friday May 11, 2012 @07:45AM (#3958725)
> After being found guilty of copyright offenses in connection with the operations of The Pirate Bay

Did Sweden fundamentally change their copyright laws or how could the piratebay guys be found guilty, in detail?

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Re:Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Requests Pardon by olalonde on Friday May 11, 2012 @08:31AM (#3958852)
They downloaded copyrighted material illegally?
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Re:Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Requests Pardon by Schmidt on Friday May 11, 2012 @08:53AM (#3958923)
They may have, but the charges were "assisting copyright infringment" and not copyright infringement. (Medhjälp till upphovsrättsbrott).
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Re:Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Requests Pardon by olalonde on Friday May 11, 2012 @10:24AM (#3959304)
I stand corrected. I was under the impression that the charges were unrelated to TPB since TPB is still in operation.
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Re:Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Requests Pardon by acuozzo on Friday May 11, 2012 @08:48AM (#3958903)
> They downloaded copyrighted material illegally?

Are you asking this or is it a statement-question?

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Re:Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Requests Pardon by olalonde on Friday May 11, 2012 @10:22AM (#3959292)
I was guessing... since TPB is still in operation I assumed their crime was not running TPB but more likely piracy.
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Re:Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Requests Pardon by gizzlon on Friday May 11, 2012 @08:46AM (#3958896)
huh? In what way did they download anything?
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Re:Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Requests Pardon by kahawe on Friday May 11, 2012 @09:18AM (#3959018)
> They downloaded copyrighted material illegally?

Are you asking me or is this supposed to be an answer? Because TPB did certainly not DOWNLOAD "copyrighted material illegally?" and they never UPloaded it either and for many, many years they were defacto untouchable under Swedish law and were publicly ridiculing legal threats made against them because of that.

So my question was a lot more detailed and valid than you probably assumed and either way please refrain from statement-questions as these are just plain rude.

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