The Pirate Bay trial settled into something (sort of) approaching normality today as two professors took the stand. One explained more about how BitTorrent functions; the other got into a fight with prosecutors, suggested that file-sharing wasn’t bad for the music business in general and that it has led to a huge transfer of wealth to artists, and sarcastically asked the court to send flowers to his wife.
Up first (and speaking by telephone) was Kristoffer Schollin, a professor at Göteborgs Universitet (Gothenburg University). Schollin’s expertise, according to his bio, lies in “Copyright law, Trademark law, Internet Domain Name regulation, Digital Rights Management and Open Source/Free Software dynamics,” but he spent much of his testimony describing how BitTorrent functions.
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