So Stina wrote a piece for the independent about the Pirate Bay Trials which reminded me: I’m really upset about the implications of this attack one of the main hubs of the new social order! Just in case  you don’t know, The Pirate Bay is a place for downloading torrent files, which are little files that help you download bigger files from people all over the world. Generally, it’s used for downloading things you’ve not bought, and so helps us in the grand copyright infringement which, apart from making us feel kind of smug and priatey, proves the inefficiency in the market for such digital things and ultimately, hopefully, will change the state of play. See Steal This Film for more info.

Here, I just wanted to link to some coverage of the trial, which is illuminating. There’s Spectrical which is the sort of `official’ coverage, then there’s also TorrentFreak’s coverage which has an especially moving piece about one of the wife of one of the witnesses for the defence being sent a load of flowers. Then there’s also the mainstream coverage in the Guardian, in Cory Doctorow’s column Digital rights, digital wrongs. It all goes to show the lengths people go in order to restrict change. I wonder if I’ll be as motivated as the record companies when something I don’t want to change comes along? Hopefully, at least, I’ll be better informed than these dinosaurs…