A natural conclusion.

In their continued Sisyphean fight against the nature of the digital age, ifpi have apparently started to cast a wider net, looking to prove that isp's are complicit in the crime of illegal filesharing. This comes as no suprise to those of us who followed the TPB-trial, where the prosecution likened TPB to a man holding the coat of someone who was beating up some poor bastard on the sidewalk.

For those of you trying to wrap your head around that simily, I feel I have to wonder if a more apt comparison might be that TPB is like the rather spaced-out guy who is often tending the coat room in a club, where a fight inevitably breaks out on the dancefloor. The guy is barely organised enough to remember who put what in there, which is why there's a notice on the wall saying "we take no responsibility for any valuables lost".

If anyone is looking for the definition of Ad Hominem and cant be arsed to go to wikipedia, this might be a good place to lift several examples from. Also, lets get one thing clear, we are not like somali pirates.

For one thing, we wear proper eyepatches as soon as we think we can get away with it in mixed company. Somali pirates have so far shown an abysmal lack of proper attire. There is not one captains hat, eyepatch or parrot to be found among them. Frankly, it's an insult to a community who revel in talk like a pirate day once a year to be associated with such a sad bunch of posers.

So, the swedish author Carina Rydberg has thrown herself into the tpb debate, showing off an illiteracy in the relevant technology which would be kind of endearing in a twoyearold but becomes embarassing in someone writing an op'ed piece for one of swedens biggest evening papers.

The info that she is pals with one of the prosecutors in the tpb case is just delicious irony.

With friends lke these...

Heavily armed resistance fighters

There's been much to do about nothing in the TPB trial, ranging from a massive overkill of police action in siezing their servers, to conspiracy theories about secret cabals of pirates controlling the mediaflow and on to the obvious and lugubrious connections of filesharing and terrorism...

Heres my take on the situation.