On Friday next week in Stockholm, I will play at the opening party for the trial against Pirate Bay. In true pirate style the trial is announced as a theater spectacle – spectrial – and it is definitely something worth following. It is of course not a spectacle for the entertainment industry, European Parliament, and other copyright mongers that are pushing for the death sentence of the Pirate Bay. But for me, it is more like a money-induced theater than something about artist’s rights or computer literate laws. Why, you may ask?
The investigations leading up to the trial are the longest ever in Sweden, according to some. It is probably because linking to copyrighted material is not illegal in Sweden, which has been explained to “the industry” repeatedly, hehe. But to try to prove that it is still wrong anyway, a number of officials from the media industry has been invited to court. And the police man who investigated Pirate Bay. But well, he was also working for Universal and Warner so we’d might aswell call him a part of the entertainment industry. I am guessing there are reasons to why there are no people that actually know something about computers and law?
Eh, yeah well anyway, see you at the party!
