<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>What about the Sheffield Student who got extradited for links recently? PPUK & PPAU made comment on this.</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>===</div><div>Mozart Palmer</div><div>Head of Media Relations</div><div>Pirate Party Australia</div><div>Ph: 0415 152 765</div><div>===</div></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On 22/01/2012, at 8:42 AM, Christian Hufgard wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 21.01.2012 22:28, Justus Römeth wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">They host torrents files that link to infringing copyright. Without being<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">an expert on US law, I am pretty sure that is illegal in the US, because<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- even links to streaming sites are illegal as recent cases have shown<br></blockquote><br>Do you have any cases for links to files that have been declared illegal?<br><br><blockquote type="cite">- there is a lot of published letters by rightholders, some of them<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">American, demanding to take the torrents down, citing American law.<br></blockquote><br>Lawyers always write such latters. But its up to a judge to decide if<br>law was broken.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">- TPB is hosted in Sweden, and even under mounting pressure from Swedish<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">authority did not move out of Sweden.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">And seriously, the best argument you can come up with that you think TPB<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">would be legal were it hosted in the US? Seriously?<br></blockquote><br>I never said that TPB is illegal in sweden. The site is up and running.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">If it would be as easy as you say, why are not European countries, where<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">holocaust denial or glorifying the Third Reich (by using it's signs and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">symbols in a non-historic contest) not going after German-languaged<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">neo-nazi sides hosted in the US?<br></blockquote><br>There must be a reason why google blocks links to those sites... On the<br>other hand it depends on the legal cooperations two countries are<br>running. Copyright is handled by various international treaties. Freedom<br>of speech is not.<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">Sorry, I am calling bull on all you have said so far in this discussion.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-J<br></blockquote><br>Be my guest.<br>____________________________________________________<br>Pirate Parties International - General Talk<br><a href="mailto:pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net">pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net</a><br>http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>