{"id":2708,"date":"2012-07-10T00:40:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T04:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2012-07-10T00:40:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T04:40:43","slug":"peter-sunde-pleas-pardon-the-swedish-people-from-court-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2012\/07\/10\/peter-sunde-pleas-pardon-the-swedish-people-from-court-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Sunde Pleas: &#8216;Pardon the Swedish people from court corruption&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Sunde, public face of The Pirate Bay during its publicity and trial over the past six years, recently published a <a href=\"http:\/\/falkvinge.net\/2012\/07\/06\/aftermath-of-the-pirate-bay-trial-peter-sundes-plea-in-his-own-words\/\">long personal essay<\/a> about the experience.  <\/p>\n<p>It is a hair-raising story of judicial manipulation, international arm-twisting, and companies offering jobs to prosecutors in cases affecting them&#8230; breaking the design of the legal system in a few places.  The result, for Sunde, has been a ridiculously punitive and overwhelming sentence and fine with, in his case, only circumstantial evidence.  (he is asked to pay more in fines than he is likely to make in a lifetime.)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Rick Falkvinge for translating the essay; and to Sunde for sharing it.  Please read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Sunde, public face of The Pirate Bay during its publicity and trial over the past six years, recently published a long personal essay about the experience. It is a hair-raising story of judicial manipulation, international arm-twisting, and companies offering jobs to prosecutors in cases affecting them&#8230; breaking the design of the legal system in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[210,216,211,218],"tags":[60671,60670,60669],"class_list":["post-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chain-gang","category-fly-by-wire","category-international","category-not-so-popular","tag-appeals","tag-sweden","tag-tpb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-HG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2709,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}