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I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “Swedish prosecutors appear to be close to finally pressing charges against The Pirate Bay, having served them with 4,000 pages of legal papers. While this might appear bad, the administrators have already moved some of the servers out of the country, so Swedish prosecutors can’t shut it down, even if they want to. Moreover, the people of Sweden are decidedly on their side, with the Pirate Party, which is sympathetic to TPB’s cause, being one of the top ten political parties in the country. Still, this looks like a dirty trick on the part of the prosecutors — like they’re dumping all of this on the defendants in the hope that they won’t have enough time to sort through it and defend themselves. For comparison, the second-biggest murder case in Sweden required only 1,500 pages.”

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