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Circus Spectrial delivers you quality #spectrial nonsense, 24/7, every day! The #spectrial is a disaster, a very funny disaster! People make music, graphics, and come up with great ideas! Circus Spectrial tries to gather it all, in order to be an awesome source for #spectrial news! We love King Kong and Cider!
Feb
22
Mar
3
Final day of #spectrial part 1
So, the first part of the #spectrial has ended. It has been amusing. The verdict will be available at 11 am on the 17th of April. So there is 9 months, 21 days, 19 hours, 39 minutes, 24 seconds ago left..
Wikipedia’s Spectrial article is updated continuously.
A Swedish record store says that they sell more records, and say that file sharing can have positive outcome. (Video).
TorrentFreak’s article about today’s session in court.
News
- 03/03 - Piratkarta visar fildelarna
- 03/03 - Sista dagen i piraträttegången
- 02/03 - Jeg vil betale, men får ikke lov
- 02/03 - Skaparen av Bittorrent: “Piraterna är en huvudvärk”
- 02/03 - Visst är pirater roligare än antipirater
- 01/03 - Riskerar få betala mångmiljonskadestånd
A bunch of nice daily summaries from the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter:
- Rättegången mot Pirate Bay - dag 10
- Rättegången mot Pirate Bay - dag 9
- Rättegången mot Pirate Bay - dag 7
- Rättegången mot Pirate Bay - dag 6
- Rättegången mot Pirate Bay - dag 5
- Rättegången mot Pirate Bay - dag 4
- Rättegången mot Pirate Bay - dag 3
- Rättegången mot Pirate Bay - dag 2
- Rättegången mot Pirate Bay - dag 1
Mar
3
MP3 and Live audio
As always, SVT is streaming live audio from the Spectrial. At this page, mp3 files from 2/3 and 3/3 are added.
Mar
3
#spectrial 2/3
Yesterday, the prosecution were giving their closing arguments in court. Roswell calls for jail time. Wadsted eats sparrows? Summaries from yesterday’s session in court:
A torrent from yesterday’s court session.
Fried sparrows, ohm-nom-nom
Yesterday, Wadsted pulled out some really funny stuff. You can listen to it on Youtube.
To consume films and TV shows through The Pirate Bay is like lying on your back and let fried sparrows fly into your mouth, regardless of whether or not you’re hungry. The sparrows are also piled up around you so you can consume them whenever you want, requiring no effort on your part.
Monique Wadsted
(Translation stolen from The Daily T)
What? Only 1 year?
“I believe that the correct punishment is a year in prison and that is what I ask from the judge in this case,” Roswll said in court yesterday. Gottfrid responded dryly, “I was surprised that he did not ask for more, I expected he would require two years in prison but he asked for only one! The old bastard’s crazy.”
- 02/03 - The Pirate Bay Trial Day 10: Calls for Jail Time
- 02/03 - Pirate on prosecutor: ‘The old bastard’s crazy’
- 02/03 - “Gubbjäveln är ju vansinnig”
Humor
Not a day without humor. Video: Hitler gets caught from downloading torrents from TBP .//. King Kong t-shirt .//. On Jens’ homepage, there issome new pictures .//.
News
- 02/03 - Rättegången mot Pirate Bay - dag 9
- 02/03 - Laddar Skalman ned musik?
- 02/03 - Pirate Bay är rena tjuvarnas marknad
Mar
3
Mar
3
Telenor (ISP) says no to IFPI
The Norwegian department of IFPI ordered Norway’s largest Internet service provider Telenor to prevent their customers from accessing The Pirate Bay. After some days of consideration, Telenor told IFPI they will not block access to The Pirate Bay. But it does not end there. They say that even though they have sympathy for the right holders, it Telenor can’t be held responsible for crimes comitted by their customers. They even said that it is the movie and record industry’s problem. “- The problem is that the business model for sale of digital content is out-dated and they have not adapted to the Internet age”. Telenor also says that it can be done successfully, and refers to iTunes and Telenor’s own online music store, and adds the enormous market for ring tones and mobile phone games.
IFPI has said that they are considering taking Telenor to court..
….maybe it’s about time someone sues IKEA for making knives?
- 03/03 - Telenor Wont Block The Pirate Bay (Torrentfreak)
- 02/03 - Trekker Telenor for retten (Norwegian)
- 02/03 - Nej till krav om Pirate Bay
- 02/03 - Telenor sperrer ikke The Pirate Bay (Norwegian)
Mar
1
Roger Wallis - A true hero
Roger Wallis, who was called as witness in the Spectrial, is now the name on everyone’s lips. He was fried in court by the industry lawyers, who tried to discredit his qualifications. “What are you so worried about?” Wallis asked Danowsky. “I’m not worried, it’s you who ought to be worried,” replied IFPI’s lawyer Danowsky. This resulted in the judge calling for a break, whereas Wallis shouted “What people! God bless Sweden” while leaving the court room.
Later, at the end of the second part of the witness hearing, Wallis was asked if he wanted any reimbursement for showing up in court. He said that the court was welcome to send some flowers to his wife.
Naturally, the court could not assist with that. People on EFNet started joining #wallisflowers, and soon the web page http://yodo.se/wallis was put up, and people started ordering flowers for Roger Wallis and his wife.
- 01/3 - “You are welcome to send some flowers to my wife,” said Professor and media researcher Roger Wallis
- 27/2 - Pirate Bay Witness’ Wife Overwhelmed With Flowers (TorrentFreak)
- 26/2 - Wallis: ”Skicka blommor till min fru”
- 26/2 - Blomberget växer hos paret Wallis
- 26/2 - Pirate Bay-vittne tackas med blommor
- 26/2 - Fikk blomsterhilsen fra hele internett (Norwegian)
- 26/2 - Görel fikk 150 piratbuketter (Norwegian)
- 26/2 - Professorn vittnade - då strömmade blommorna in
- 26/2 - Blommor som tack i Pirate Bay-rättegång
- 26/2 - Blomsterbud till Pirate Bayvittnets fru
- 26/2 - The Pirate Bay : la femme d’un témoin reçoit des centaines de bouquets de fleurs (French)
Here is a video from Sydsvenskan. He also received an e-mail from the Swedish artist Timbuktu.
After just a short performance in the Spectrial, Roger Wallis became a real hero! Flowers for over $5000 in a few days, a ton of media articles! Thank you, Wallis!
Mar
1
Updates from the Spectrial
Sorry about the last days. Too much cider. New week, more Spectrial. More fun! Go go Pirate Bay!
Roger Wallis - A hero!
Read the next blog post for details 
Producer of Pusher 3 sympathizes with filesharers
Henrik Danstrup, the producer of Pusher 3, says to the Danish radio DR that he finds it weird that Antipiratbyrån, on behalf of Nordisk Film is suing The Pirate Bay for 150 000 SEK in damages for his movie. He says that he does not mind file sharing, and says he has sympathy with the fileshares, and that Pirate Bay is being sued against his will!
Humor
Funny IT Crowd Anti-Piracy AD .//. Filesharing using Bittorrent technology, with BrokeP (Swedish video) .//. What happens when you drink cider .//. Hymn till warezhavet .//. Hur mycket har mediaindustrin “förlorat” på din nedladdning? .//. How much has the entertainment industry “lost” because of your file sharing? .//. Nice Calvin & Hobbes comic about supply, demand and subsidizing .//. TPB Trial HowTo (Youtube)
Music
- Roger Wallis tribute by LupusRex (Youtube)
- OBD - Transmission (Spectrial Edit) (Youtube)
- Kattenmatte - 8.5% (HD-kvalitet) (Youtube)
- JeNS vs. Spectrial - Nu tar vi en CiDER
Jens has also made a homepage!
More stuff
Updated schedule for the spectrial .//. HARDtalk: The Music Industry - Artists vs. Labels (BBC, January 2009)
More news:
- 28/2 - “Olovlig fildelning kan drabba leverantörer”
- 27/2 - Hemligt avtal oroar fildelare
- 27/2 - SVT:s vd tror Pirate Bay vinner
- 27/2 - Serverbytte ga Pirate Bay-stopp (Norwegian)
- 27/2 - Noen forsøker å ta fra deg internett (Norwegian)
- 26/2 - The Pirate Bay Trial - day 9 (Blog)
- 26/2 - Swartz: Wallis utpumpad
- 26/2 - Fireworks erupt over prof’s qualifications
- 26/2 - Swartz: En medial katastrof
- 26/2 - Pirate Bay-dom kan skjutas upp
- 26/2 - Entertainment Lawyers Attack Pirate Bay Witness’ Qualifications
- 26/2 - Vil ikke sperre for fildeling (Norwegian)
- 26/2 - Sinnene i kok under Pirate Bay-rettssaken
- 26/2 - Piratvän ovilligt ställd mot Pirate Bay
- 26/2 - A good day for the roses: Pirate Bay trial, day 9
- 26/2 - Pirate Bay Trial Day 9: BitTorrent Is Not Evil
- 26/2 - Pirate Bay’s neo-Nazi sugar daddy
- 26/2 - TPB trial witness: file-sharing not bad for music business
- 25/2 - Liveblogg TPB-rättegången: Vilka siffror gäller egentligen, Ifpi?
- 25/2 - Questions from readers, interview with P. Sunde (Norwegian)
- 25/2 - IFPI boss at TPB trial: you’re either with us or against us
- 25/2 - Swartz: Kennedy var upprörd
- 25/2 - Pirate Bay Trial Day 8: Pirates Kill the Music Biz (TorrentFreak)
- 24/2 - Peter Sunde och Monique Wadsted avslöjar sina konsumtionsvanor
- 24/2 - Nordisk Film sagsøger netpirater (Danish)
Feb
25
More music
And be sure to check out the Pirate_Album____Spectrial___CiDER.4740607.TPB.torrent if you want a nice collection of #spectrial songs! And this blog post for more links.
Feb
24
Daily Spectrial Digest - Tuesday 24/2
Today’s session in court was some sort of disaster. The first expert witness told the court several times that he did not have technical knowledge about the Bittorrent protocol. The second expert witness said something like “no it is not documented anywhere, but I would like to remind that I am under oath” (i.e. I can’t prove it, but please please trust me when I’m saying this….)
Looking forward to more nonsense tomorrow!
More details about Wadstedt’s Facebook campaign
Lawyer Monique Wadstedt and author Carina Rydberg started a pro-copyright campaign on Facebook. But what are friends on Facebook anyways? Here is a quote from Torrentfreak:
In a desperate move to amp up her case against The Pirate Bay, prosecuting lawyer Monique Wadsted has asked authors for quotes and support in preparation for her closing arguments next Monday. Unfortunately for her, the friendly request backfired as a befriended author turned out to be a fanatical Pirate Bay supporter.
What can we say? In your face!
Music and fun and interesting stuff
- New tune by JeNS: JeNS feat. the tpb trial - Pajrätt bäj har en hemsida (awesome!)
- Handbook for Pirates (.swf)
- A scanned PDF of the charges
Movie: Urospredere
In the light of the increased interest for illegal filesharing in Norway, Asbjørn Engedal and freelance journalist Simon Eriksen Valvik from Norway decided to start a project about illegal filesharing. This has now resulted in a documentary titled “Urospredere“. A large number of people have participated in this project, among them from IFPI, The Data Inspectorate, Director Harald Zwart (Cool guy - says it’s ok to pirate), Piratbyrän, Sosialistic Youth, Minister of Culture and Church Affairs.
The movie is now finished, and you can buy tickets to the preview in Oslo, Norway due the 27th of March. A trailer is also available on the project’s web page.
- “The Pirate Bay is so enormously large”
When questioned in court today regarding documentation about the material that the torrent files points to, Anders Nilsson from the Swedish Anti Piracy Agency said that “The problem with Pirate Bay, is that Pirate Bay is so enormously large”! Size does matter! Hail King Kong!
News:
- 24/2 - Pirate Bay Trial Day 7: Screenshots for Evidence (Torrentfreak)
- 24/2 - Carina Rydberg: “Därför laddar jag ner illegalt”
- 24/2 - Skivbolagen hittar nya inkomster
- 24/2 - Nu är boken här! (blog post about the KOPIMI book)
- 24/2 - Can Sweden make the charges stick against The Pirate Bay? (CBCnews.ca)
- 24/2 - Etter The Pirate Bay-saken kommer Ipred-loven (Norwegian)
- 24/2 - Piratkopiering bra för kulturbranschen! (Calandrellas blogg)
- 23/2 - Pirate Bay Prosecution Hires Hypocrite Pirate Author for PR (Torrentfreak)
- 23/2 - Процесс над The Pirate Bay:итоги первой недели
- 22/2 - Internautas de todo o mundo apoiam Pirate Bay (Portuguese)
Feb
24
BBQing in court
Magnus Mårtensson, IFPI’s lawyer is currently getting fried in court! He has gathered “evidence” about filesharing, and his performance so far has not been very impressive. No technical education, “I don’t know” repeated too often, no clue about the BT technology, and yet he is acting as an expert witness in court, presenting “evidence”.
Time to fetch some popcorn!
Feb
23
Daily Spectrial Digest - Monday 23/2
Posting a digest post with lots of Spectrial content!
A video from Sweden’s TV4 posted on Youtube today, featuring an early morning debate with the Swedish actor Stefan Sauk and Christian Engström, Vice Chairman of Piratpartiet. Watch the video here (Swedish only).
Cool stuff
Academy Awards KOPIMI Station
The people of F.A.T. LABS (Free Art and Technology) made a post about their Academy Award KOPIMI station. A neat and elegantly designed device where you insert an usb-stick and get a copy of all the Oscar winners copied onto your USB stick. A few days ago, the people at F.A.T. LABS also made a post about some nice “AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR FREE” stickers, with .eps file for download. Time for taking a trip to the store to put a new price tag on your favorite movies?
BrokeP Fanclub
It seems like BrokeP has gotten his own fanclub! In your face, Mr. Prosecutor!
King Kong
A vector drawing of the seeder King Kong tinkering with his laptop in the Cambodian jungle.
And a song about Anakata’s beard?
The Swedish radio station P4 posted a page with some sort of a contest, where they ask people to make a hit song of some Swedish lyrics about pirates, filesharing and beards. This has got to be inspired by Anakata’s beard. You can even listen to the song on the web page.
More music
More music about pirates and filesharing appeared on the Intarnut:
Download music legally - GET PAID!
From last week, but still HOT stuff! Officer Roseland, a band from Philadelphia, is offering their new album Stimulus Package for downloading. Nothing new to that stuff. BUT - This band gives you a choice: Either you pay them a dollar for downloading their album, OR CHOOSE TO GET PAID ONE DOLLAR to download their album! Read more here (English) or here (Swedish) - or check the band’s page.
Lots of stuff
Someone tweeted about this page. If you get the possibility to tamper with public displays, forget porn! Use this to display live #spectrial feeds! .//. If you read French, this page has a really long blog post regarding the trial. .//. Bored of your 4 year old faded t-shirt? Buy some new wear at the Kopimi/TPB shop! .//. QbatHQ.com has put up a nice blog with updates from the Spectrial .//. The Pirate Bay has put up a new logo! .//. An interesting book about power, broccoli and KOPIMI was released on the Pirate Bay today .//. Here is a video of the full speech given by Marcin de Kaminski of Piratbyrån outside of the courthouse on 2009-02-16 at The Pirate Bay trial. It has been subbed with English subtitles!
News from media and blogs
Found a few more news articles regarding the Spectrial. You can find a complete list at the news page.
- 19/2 - Internet hyllar King Kong-försvar
- 19/2 - Juristprofessorn om Pirate Bay: - Åklagarens bevis höll inte
- 19/2 - Starka åsikter och stora skulder
- 19/2 - Die heiße Show der Daten-Piraten (German)
- 19/2 - Åtalad trodde Pirate Bay var laglig
- 21/2 - Prozess gegen Pirate Bay - Die Wolkenjäger (German)
- 22/2 - Monique Wadstedt letar författare
- 22/2 - Warum die Datenpiraten verlogen argumentieren (German)
- 22/2 - Copyrightindustrins apati
- 22/2 - Music-swapping sites to be blocked by internet providers (Irish news)
- 23/2 - Lars Åberg: Ska vi betala för något alls?
- 23/2 - Pirate Bay: Preparing for another week humiliating The Man
- 23/2 - Warum Spiegel Online verlogen argumentiert (German)
- 23/2 - The Pirate Bay Trial: Understanding Finreactor (Torrentfreak)
Feb
23
Counterfeit money
Counterfeit money
Counterfeit 500 CIDER bill, for your illegal floppy disks!
C:\>copy 500cider.jpg a:\
1 file(s) copied.
C:\>
Feb
23
Academy Award Kopimi Station
The awesome people at F.A.T. Labs (Free Art and Technology) has put up a Kopimi station at cafe MÖRDER, where you can copy all the Oscar winners to your own USB stick.
Feb
22
Music remixes
The Spectrial has inspired several artists to make awesome music remixes. Here is a few!
- OBD - Nu är jag en CIDER (Air Street We Add Breaks RMX)
- OBD - 8.5 procent feat. Danowsky
- LupusRex feat. Håkan Roswall - Ifpiss Cider
- roswallbounce.mp3
- Freakost vs. Roswall - Indecent Proposal
- Freakost - Roswalls Epic Dream
- niru_ft_ponten_-_king_kong_in_kh_mix.mp3
- niru_ft_roswall_-_hypercube.mp3
- niru ft ponten - king kong in kh (haxxmix).mp3
- JeNS feat. Danowsky - it isn_t wrong
- JeNS feat. Roswall - IRL
- Pausmusic (Remix)
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22
Legalization of file sharing in Norway?
Norway’s Minister of Education says the battle against the pirates is already lost, and wants to have government funded payment to artists, along with income from advertising.
English article: Norwegian Minister Wants to Legalize File-Sharing
Norwegian: Solhjell vil ha gratis musikk på nettet
Feb
22
King Kong Cider All Year Round
King Kong Cider
Someone has made amazing snow sculptures of King Kong, posing in a laidback positure, holding his favorite Cider.
See all the pictures at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35667835@N03/3301480404/
Feb
22
Blogs about #spectrial
The #spectrial has made the blog writers all over the Internut gone mad! A ton of blog posts has been written. There are even blogs dedicated to filesharing and the spectrial. Here is some links:
- Rick Falkvinge (Piratpartiet)
- Christian Engström (Piratpartiet)
- Copyriot
- Piratpartisten
- Aron46
- Brokep
- Frihet, Fildelning och Feminism
- Dampfmaschine (GERMAN)
- Dyade-bloggen
- Intensifier Blog
- Henrik-Alexandersson.se
- Omg Internets!
- Hanna Wagenius
- niklasd.wordpress.com
- Opassande
- projO’s blog
- The Blog Pirate
- aginamist.blogg.se
- LinuxPortalen.se
- E-X-E.dk
- Sidvind
- Don’t Panic
- Calandrellas blogg