50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped

Re:50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped by JBiserkov on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @08:59AM (#484495)

May be this is their evil plan - make The Pirate Bay SO popular, that it won't be able to handle the load and will eventually collapse under it's own weight :)

I guess they haven't heard of http://highscalability.com/

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Re:50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped by jacquesm on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @09:01AM (#484498)

Excellent point, why didn't I think of that right away :)

Or, even more evil, they hope the owners will pull the plug during an attack of extreme anxiety, brought on by the increase in media attention. Or that they will go away when they've made enough money. Your train of thought opens up interesting possibilities...

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Re:50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped by Xichekolas on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @09:05AM (#484500)

Well obviously the owners of TPB bribed some government officials into prosecuting now with bad evidence and an inept prosecutor in order to preempt other possible cases in the future.

Once they are cleared, they will have precedent on their side in any future cases. Quite genius really... vaccinating the court system in a sense.

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Re:50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped by ph0rque on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @09:16AM (#484506)

Hmmm... that sounds like the premise of a new John Grisham book :~).

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Re:50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped by jrockway on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @09:07AM (#484501)

I am pretty sure that TPB is not going to go away after "making enough money" or getting all the media attention they want. They want to "win", which probably means they will fight until traditional media formats die out. (Which I see as a great thing, FWIW.)

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Re:50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped by jacquesm on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @09:10AM (#484503)

errm... yes, we got that :)

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