Following calls from the crew of The Pirate Bay earlier this week, it has been confirmed that the audio of the upcoming trial will be streamed live on the Internet. Swedish public broadcaster SVT will be in charge of the operation, set to begin next Monday.

Earlier this week, Peter Sunde aka Brokep of The Pirate Bay called for a live webcast of their upcoming trial to be available to the masses. “We want to show how it works,” he said. “Cards on the table, everything should be transparent!”

Just a couple of days later, Peter’s wish has been fulfilled.

According to Erik Fichtelius, head of Swedish public broadcaster SVT 24, the trial’s audio will be streamed by them, live on the Internet. “It is a major trial with exciting witnesses and expert interviews,” he told a Swedish journalists’ website.

SVT will broadcast live audio from the entire trial. Additional video would’ve been nice too, but under Swedish law this is not allowed. However, to complement the audio, SVT will have a reporter in the court room adding extra information to the stream and this will be complemented by additional images uploaded to the site.

There will be plenty more coverage though. Jamie King, director of the ‘Steal This Film‘ documentaries told TorrentFreak that his crew will also be present. They are not sure if they are allowed to film in court, but there are planning to interview people entering and leaving the court room. All this material will of course be available on BitTorrent soon after.

The trial will be webcast live from SVT Direkt, starting Monday 16th February.