somebody wrote:
> First, kudos to the Swedish court for following
> the spirit, and not the letter of the law:

I think it's a slippery slope. I'd rather see the case fail (since they 
aren't distributing copyrighted information and the prosecution was lame) 
and have the legislature clarify the situation.  As it stands, nobody can 
really be sure now whether it's safe to run a search engine without 
massively lawyering up first.

People will bitch up a storm when the RIAA shuts down a Linux torrent server 
because the RIAA didn't bother to check whether it was actually distributing 
something copyrighted.

> I wish Canadians could have done the same with captured pirates:

I'm not sure it's all as clear-cut as the media might imply:
http://www.sfbayview.com/2009/you-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates/

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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