In the final day of the Pirate Bay trial, the defence made its closing arguments. While doing so, they rebooted the servers, which had crashed, from the court room.
The Pirate Bay “spectrial” is wrapping up, with the prosecution having just made its closing arguments.
Torrent Trial of the Millennium update: when asked if he should be reimbursed for transportation to court, media researcher Robert Wallis suggested flowers be sent to his wife. And the pirates responded in kind.
Today at The Pirate Bay trial, there were two expert witnesses, both of whom were sympathetic to the TPB cause. So of course, the IFPI tried to discredit their credentials rather than their ideas.
Today the prosecution brought a few anti-piracy watchdogs to the stand who had “investigated” the Pirate Bay by downloading music, movies and games from the site. And then they reduced their evidence to shreds.
Welcome to your Saturday evening update on the trial of the century. Today, in celebration of the end of a week’s worth of court, the Pirate Bureau threw a massive and slyly rebellious rager.
And the good news is that none of the major players are involved.
Maybe it’s all the cold and flu medication I took last week to try and fight off the summer sniffles that seem to be going around, but I’m actually finding myself not being offended by Telstra’s corporate arrogance at the moment. In fact, today I’m actually enjoying it, given the fact that the nation’s biggest ISP in BigPond has refused to partake in the Rudd Government’s Live trials of mandatory ISP-level internet filtering. Also refusing to take part was Internode, although both Optus and iiNet have agreed to play along, in the case of iiNet to try and prove how unfeasible the plan to filter the net actually is.
Considering BigPond isn’t partaking, it begs the question – how can any results be considered accurate if the country’s largest ISP wasn’t a part of the trials? Isn’t it time for Conroy to give up on this whole farce?
If you haven’t already, sign the GetUp petition here.
Want naked DSL now, now, NOW? Okay, you can’t order it today, but you can apply to Internode to be a part of their trial. You’ll have to wear your own costs to disconnect, etc, from any current services, but Internode has put their trial participant price at $40 per month – that’s ADSL2+ with nothing else to pay because you no longer need a voice line. Phase one of the trial is in Adelaide (home of Internode), followed by Internode-enabled exchanges nationally. They aim to launch the full service, Internode Ultra, in Q1 2008.
Read on to see if this trial is going to meet your needs.
