The Piratebay on trial

On Monday morning Sweden’s largest trial against The Pirate Bay begins at the Kungsholmen courthouse in Stockholm. What is at stake is the battle against file sharing empires and surveillance international networks. The Pirate Bay is charged with violating Swedish copyright laws by facilitating the trading of copyrighted material and then making money off that trade by selling advertising on their site. The trial comes after a massive police investigation in 2006, when police raided the TBP office and confiscated some of their servers. The trial will be broadcasted live and translated in english with a translated a commented stream. The coverage of the trial will be a participative, crowd-sourced journalism project, because journalists, reporters and bloggers are encouraged to use Twitter’s hashtag format, which will allow anyone to cover the trial by tweeting or searching for “#spectrial” on Twitter. Hashtags act like keywords on Twitter, and allow you to easily find the content you are looking for. You can read all the information here <a href=”http://trial.thepiratebay.org
and on Piratebyran <a href=”http://www.piratbyran.org , the anti-copyright group and IP researchers.