For Those Following TPB Trial...
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For Those Following TPB Trial...
These guys are legends, the prosecution claimed that IP address and databases relating to individual owners were solid evidence for conviction, so what do they go and do, put the lawyers and law firms as the root owners of some of the sites ip address, thus proving that that information is easily falsified.
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The Pirate Bay recently got a new range of IPs and to everyone’s surprise they are now linked to several movie and music industry lawyers involved in the TPB trial. According to the Pirate Bay’s Wikipedia entry the change was due to a hostile takeover, but most people know better.
RIPE is the Internet registry that keeps track of all IP-addresses allocated in Europe. When the Pirate Bay got a new range of IP-addresses this week, something odd happened. Aside from the usual TPB ASCII art there was some unusual information added to the RIPE database.
According to the recently updated RIPE database entry, the Pirate Bay is now listed as a customer of Danowsky & Partner law firm (who represented IFPI), Maqs Law Firm (representing the MPAA) and the Swedish anti-piracy bureau. All three were involved in the recent trial, which led some to believe that they somehow gained control over the site. This is nonsense of course.
So why is this info in there, some might wonder. One explanation might be that during the Pirate Bay trial the prosecution used (incorrect) data from the RIPE database claiming that this was the absolute truth. The Pirate Bay team probably put the lawyers’ info in there themselves to show that this is not the case. Indeed, there is no doubt that they will have a hard time selling this ‘truth’ to the public now, with their own names being featured in the recent entry.
TPB RIPE WHOIS
One of the other advantages of the new RIPE WHOIS is that the Pirate Bay team doesn’t have to deal with any of the takedown requests anymore, as it states that all abuse email should be directed to the earlier mentioned law firms. Aye, that will teach those landlubbers
RIPE is the Internet registry that keeps track of all IP-addresses allocated in Europe. When the Pirate Bay got a new range of IP-addresses this week, something odd happened. Aside from the usual TPB ASCII art there was some unusual information added to the RIPE database.
According to the recently updated RIPE database entry, the Pirate Bay is now listed as a customer of Danowsky & Partner law firm (who represented IFPI), Maqs Law Firm (representing the MPAA) and the Swedish anti-piracy bureau. All three were involved in the recent trial, which led some to believe that they somehow gained control over the site. This is nonsense of course.
So why is this info in there, some might wonder. One explanation might be that during the Pirate Bay trial the prosecution used (incorrect) data from the RIPE database claiming that this was the absolute truth. The Pirate Bay team probably put the lawyers’ info in there themselves to show that this is not the case. Indeed, there is no doubt that they will have a hard time selling this ‘truth’ to the public now, with their own names being featured in the recent entry.
TPB RIPE WHOIS
One of the other advantages of the new RIPE WHOIS is that the Pirate Bay team doesn’t have to deal with any of the takedown requests anymore, as it states that all abuse email should be directed to the earlier mentioned law firms. Aye, that will teach those landlubbers
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always was a fatal flaw in any prosecution of "illegal" downloading
all the IP address shows is an ip address in a log somewhere, could refer to any piece of IT kit, meaningless and any decent lawyer woudl be able to show this
plus lots of sites are now just inject loads of dummy ip addresses into logs etc
all the IP address shows is an ip address in a log somewhere, could refer to any piece of IT kit, meaningless and any decent lawyer woudl be able to show this
plus lots of sites are now just inject loads of dummy ip addresses into logs etc
#5
Very true, also the prosecution doesn't have a clue how the technology works and the fact that the Judge could not have been impartial as he is a member of pro-copyright groups.
Pirate Bay Judge Accused of Bias, Calls for a Retrial | TorrentFreak
Pirate Bay Judge Accused of Bias, Calls for a Retrial | TorrentFreak
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The basic issue is that if you accept the premise that PB is nothing more than a search engine (albeit a specialised one for Torrents) then Google would also fall foul of the ruling as you can search that and simply add the word 'torrent'.
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