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 an OPML file, for import into your favourite newsreader.  A few of these are Swedish language only.

The press conference yesterday, held jointly by Piratbyrån and The Pirate Bay, was interesting.  I especially took note of Peter Sunde estimating the amount of traffic related to The Pirate Bay on the net.  Sunde said that about 80% of internet traffic today is torrents, and about half of that is related to The Pirate Bay.  Even if the 80% figure is exaggerated, and I don’t know if it is or not, that’s still an incredible amount of traffic. And so it begins