Internet being bombed back to the stone age tomorrow?

Posted on | April 16, 2009 | No Comments

Tomorrow will be a big milestone in Internet-, technology-, copyright-, music-, movie- and civil right history: The Swedish court will announce their verdict in the so-called ‘spectrial‘, where the people behind The Pirate Bay (TBP) have been accused ao. of assisting copyright infringement. Although both parties will appeal the sentence if being ruled against, it will still indicate the Swedish courts’ overall view on the matter.

Ultimately, if TBP is sentenced, it will create precedence for copyright vs. technology cases across the globe for many years to come and give the established music- and moviebusiness (IFPI, RIAA and MPAA) a whole new legal range of tools to fasten their grip on artistic material – while bombing new network- and distribution technologies and mindsets back to the stone age.

We should all be holding our breath.

By the way, check out this support party in Pushkin Square in Moscow happening today.

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