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Day #5 of The Pirate Bay 'Spectrial' - Peter Sunde Takes the Stand

By soulxtc

Prosecution blasted by defense for continually presenting evidence before it has a chance to review it, Sunde's attorney even comparing it to an episode of "Perry Mason." The trial resumed with Peter Sunde, one of the four founders of The Pirate Bay BitTorrent tracker site, taking the stand, and the prosecution wasted no time making a mockery of the Swedish judicial system. The prosecution grilled Sunde about him being the spokesperson for The Pirate Bay and why he took up the role, apparently trying to portray him as being part of the site's management and there responsible for its alleged misdeeds. "[I did it] since noone else wanted to take on that role so I took it upon me to do it," he replied. "Do you have any leading function in TPB," asked Swedish prosecutor Håkan Roswall.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on February 20, 2009 (boomark / email).