I’ve been listening in on The Pirate Bay trial almost every day for the past two weeks.  Through it I have gotten a renewed and impassioned sympathy for the pirate movement.  Actually, we can call it Free Culture if you … Continue reading →

Hear the great Leonard Cohen live from the Beacon Theatre over at NPR’s All Songs Considered Live In Concert series.  It’s the first U.S. show for the 74 year old poet and singer/songwriter in 15 years. Thanks to my wife … Continue reading →

Professor Roger Wallis testified in The Pirate Bay trial yesterday on behalf of the three defendants.  The cross-examination was the most heated one so far in the trial, with the prosecuting side trying to diminish the professor’s credentials.  At one … Continue reading →

John Kennedy was asked in the Pirate Bay Trial if the record industry had taken actions against Google for their indexing torrents.  They had not, because as he said, Google had chosen to partner with them rather than work against … Continue reading →

Ooooh! Some benchmarks are already in and it’s looking very promising.  Over 5 times faster than IE8 on Javascript execution.  IE7 isn’t on the graph but is mentioned in the results, simply because putting it on the graph would make … Continue reading →

We’ve had a chance to hear from Fredrik Neij in the trial this morning.  Since I haven’t listened in to any trials before and my legal experience so far consists of scattered episodes of L.A. Law in the early nineties … Continue reading →

Yesterday’s post of the day award (a one-time affair, despite its name), goes to Christan Engström, one of the founders of the Swedish Pirate Party.  Engström is not a lawyer, but was a nämndeman (a kind of expanded-rights juror) in … Continue reading →

As Tweeted by guff_se: Just a thought… What if the copyright industry are purposely losing the TPB-case so that they can call for new, stricter laws? That’s one explanation

I was going to post about The Pirate Bay trial today, but I must admit I’ve had a full time job just parsing the news myself, and so many bloggers are writing incredibly well about the trial already. I did … Continue reading →

The Pirate Bay trial starts this morning in Stockholm.  Follow the audio at svt.se 24 Direkt.  Live updates tagged with #spectrial on Twitter. Also, I’m following the trial on a few RSS feeds.  Here is that feed list exported as … Continue reading →