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 want to highlight Emma’s post (in Swedish, so try the Google translation) at opassande.se about the seeming failure of half the prosecution’s case today.  This partial translation is mine:

For me the big question today is whether the prosecutor lacks knowledge and preparation or if I am the one lacking legal knowledge.  Well, of course I’m not adequately knowledgeable, but I think you get my point.  Who is missing the target here, and if it is the prosecutor, how the hell did that happen?

That about sums up my feeling about today too, the prosecutor has been ridiculed to bits online, perhaps too much so but in part deservingly for his fumbling around with the computer setup (remember, this guy is the IT prosecutor in Sweden).  But I am still left with this nagging sense of: that really can’t be all they have, can it??

The coming days will be interesting.  I don’t have the calendar in front of me at the moment, but I think Monique Walsted is coming on tomorrow morning, followed by the three Pirate Bay defendants.  Listen in live on svt.se’s live stream. Yes, how DID that happen?