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Pirate Bay Court Appeal Set After General Election

TorrentFreak — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:57:23 +0000

In April 2009, all four defendants in the Pirate Bay trial were found guilty and sentenced to one year in prison and a fines of $905,000 each. The defense didn’t accept the decision, and went on to file for an appeal.

Their appeal is now expected to head to the Court of Appeal on 28 September 2010. Nine days have been allocated in all, and the last is due on 15 October.

The dates are not fixed in stone and could be changed if the plaintiffs or defendants have any objections, which even at this early stage seems to be the case.

Peter Sunde has already taken note that the provisional date is penciled-in for after the Swedish parliamentary elections which take place on 19 September 2010.

Sunde says that the four are only available for an appeal before the elections, commenting: “Who said this case is NOT political?”

If the appeal was heard before the elections, there would be a very real chance that an affirmation of the original conviction could turn into a major political issue in Sweden. Following the conviction of the ‘four’ in 2009, the Pirate Party received 7.1% of the vote in the European Parliament elections, receiving more votes from those under 30 than any other party in Sweden.

Official Pirate Party Australia

Steven Finch — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:28:36 +0000

The Pirate Party Australia is calling for founding members following the confirmation of its constitution and election of its first office holders.

Under Australian Electoral Law, the party must have 500 paid members to be recognized at a Federal Level, along with a compliant constitution and elected office holders. The latter two stages were undertaken with the support and consultation of the interim membership of the party.

Those interested in joining the Pirate Party can obtain an application form here (pdf), and payment can be made by direct deposit

, cheque, or Paypal.

The Pirate Party List of Countries

Steven Finch — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:26:36 +0000

With the emergency of the Pirate Party in Sweden in which won a European Parliamentary place at the last elections, I just wanted to run through what countries currently have a Pirate Party.

The Pirate Party – Sweden

The Pirate Party – Canada

The Pirate Party – UK

The Pirate Party – Germany

The Pirate Party – Finland

The Pirate Bay Launches Interactive Torrent Map

Steven Finch — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:39:14 +0000

Torrent giant The Pirate Bay has launched an interactive map showing where people are seeding and leeching torrents around the world, with data for every country giving a percentage of users, and how many connections are going through that country.

It’s a Google Maps mash-up, which is already serving up some fascinating data. “In the near future more statistics will be added, such as the type of BitTorrent clients people use, and the average download and upload speeds per region,” claims TorrentFreak, which reported the news.

The Pirate Bay Launches a Free Video Converter and Toolbar

Steven Finch — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:11:56 +0000

The Pirate Bay is at it again but this time they are actually offering something useful to its users. The Pirate Bay’s new offering is a ViO converters which reduces AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV and others videos to 20% of its original size without any reduction in image quality, and claims to do it faster than any other converter.

The ViO converter is currently completely free and pre-configured for popular mobile devices.

Additionally the Pirate Bay are offering an optional toolbar that can be installed. The toolbar is a dynamic video directory guide of all streaming video sites on the net, featuring a tube site ripper, powerful media search engine and one-click access to ViO video converter straight from your browser!