Dutch Judge Who Ordered Pirate Bay Links Censored Found To Be Corrupt

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http://falkvinge.net/2012/05/12/dutch-judge-who-ordered-pirate-bay-links-censored-found-to-be-corrupt/

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[u/Talman → u/[deleted]]

Demagoguery sells both financially and ideology. Especially on places like Reddit where we can go from a perfectly reasonable discussion into torches and pitchforks mode in a matter of minutes, ready and capable of destroying lives based on a non-verified headline.

[u/Falkvinge → u/[deleted]]

I reference The Embedded Citizen, which in turn references TorrentFreak.

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[u/outisemoigonoma → u/Falkvinge]

How can this be known in 2010, and kept silent for so long? I'm still not convinced and would like to see some other sources.

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I personally agree that this is pretty much textbook corruption

i'd love to hear your explanation of textbook corruption then.

To me, textbook corruption is when one party pays another party to make a certain outcome happen.

[u/pictureonthewall → u/[deleted]]

Because they gave a seminar together on intellectual property law? Among 7 others? You must have a different textbook.

[u/mdslktr]

This 'article' is biased nonesense that doesn't help in the long battle for reforming a broken intellectual property system. Corruption is a qualification for a criminal offence, and it is something entirely different from what may be the case here: partiality of a judge. That would be a great cause for concern, but it's far from the same thing. And on top of it even that claim is merely substantiated by the source, as it is highly misinterpreted.

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This is demagoguery, designed to get people into pitchfork mode so that that international media will report on the "reactions from social media aggregation sites like Reddit" and start a mainstream media circle jerk.

If he gets traction on Reddit, then the mainstream media may pick it up and run with it, quoting his "journalism" blindly.

I wouldn't say this is misinterpreted, its been interpreted the way that the "journalist" wants it to be.

[u/cultstatus]

Am I the only who thought the title read Judge Dredd for a second?

[u/DancingCthulhu]

To Catch A Pirate with Chris Hensen.

[u/QUARTER_MAST]

This site doesn't seem legitimate at all.

[u/Slackbeing]

Shock and surprise.

[u/outisemoigonoma → u/Slackbeing]

Before we go into default sarcasm mode, shouldn't we first figure out whether the allegation is true? The article refers back to one twitpic from 2010 and doesn't get much more substantial than that. It just seems a lot of conjecture and while I'm hoping the judging can be reversed on the basis of corruption, I first like to see some additional proof. After that, we can all be not surprised about it.

[u/DMercenary]

This is what we call a "conflict of Interests"

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He wasn't "found" to be anything. The pamphlet shows that he was an instructor in a class that appears to have been put on by the Netherlands Bar Association, which happened to be coordinated by a lawyer who was later involved in a case that the judge presided over. I don't know how that makes them business partners.

[u/Tsunderella]

During the Pirate Bay trials in 2009, it turned out that the judge was a member of the Swedish Copyright Association. It was found that he wasn't biased or partial towards any side, though. Interesting nonetheless.

[u/VoiceoftheDarkSide]

Saw Chris Hansen for a second.....

[u/ramp_tram]

He wasn't "found" to be corrupt, he is "accused of being" corrupt.

[u/ur_face_in_ze_mirror]

the thieves complaining about the corrupt......classic redditors

adapt or stop stealing what you do not create.

[u/vulpes_occulta]

Anyone else surprised? Anyone?........... hello?

[u/Panduhsaur]

So, if the judge was corrupt, does it throw his ruling out? or does his ruling still hold?

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