Yes, The Pirate Bay's backers are on trial in a Swedish court and might face two years in a clean, cold Nordic jail cell (perhaps right next to this guy), but that hasn't stopped them from writing a book.

The book, naturally released on The Pirate Bay, is called MAckt, Broccoli, och Kopimi, and though it's written in Swedish, you don't need to read the language to see that this is not Serious Literature. It is, however, apparently designed to make a point about The Pirate Bay's method—if that's even a word that can be used in this context—of organization.

"This book is a spontaneously organised cluster swarm project with a single purpose—Kopimi will intensify, multiply, condensate," says the introduction, according to an early English translation. "We want to reach further into ourselfs and into Kopimi. We want to penetrate into you and into the future." (I can't speak for "the future," but I personally have no desire to be "penetrated into" by the authors. One hopes this is merely an unfortunate translation.)

The book goes on to offer "100 simple instructions on how to achieve impossible things." For instance:

071. Found and own a think-tank.

072. Deny magnetism.

073. Found a business school. Drop out.

074. Write many press releases.

075. Use irc in underwear, and eat pizza.

076. Juggle with other people’s balls.

Point 100, of course, is "PROFIT."

The book is a celebration of "kopimi" ("copy me"), the basic philosophy of The Pirate Bay. "According to Kopimi," begins the book, "all truths can be summarized in a single sentence: 'the Internet is right.'"

But back in the Swedish courtroom where the trial is taking place, prosecutor Hakan Roswall and a pair of music and movie industry lawyers continued their attempt today to show that the The Pirate Bay's sophomoric philosophizing about "kopimi" was really just a way to pocket some cash and watch Hollywood blockbusters without paying a dime (or a krona).

The day opened with the charges against the four defendants being altered again (half of them were dropped on the trial's second day in order to "streamline" the case). Today's changes were relatively minor, but did include the deletion of the sentence, "All components are necessary for users of the service are able to share files with one another."

Prosecutors today called two of their own investigators as witnesses, though the results were less than spectacular. First up was Magnus M�rtensson, an IFPI music industry lawyer and antipiracy investigator who trolled through The Pirate Bay and downloaded a host of copyrighted works. But M�rtensson admitted he was not a tech expert, and although his testimony seemed designed to make the case that The Pirate Bay's tracker was used in all his downloads, he had no actual evidence of this.

Defendant and BitTorrent expert Gottfrid Warg pressed M�rtensson on this point. "I think I’ve said this three times, that I just assumed it," was the eventual response.

Defense attorneys also pressed him on whether he had downloaded illegal content from the site itself; the answer, of course, was that it was his BitTorrent client—connecting directly to other peers—that had downloaded the files.

Next up was antipiracy investigator Anders Nilsson, who appeared to know his tech. Rather than relying on mere screenshots, Nilsson logged all network activity as he performed BitTorrent transfers and went back through the logs to verify that he had used The Pirate Bay's own tracker for the downloads.

Nilsson went on to note that 93 of the top 100 most-traded files appeared to be copyrighted. On this point, he was pressed by defense lawyers, who asked him if he looked at anything on the site beyond this list. Nilsson said that he had "clicked around" but had done no systematic investigation. He was eventually asked whether he could "present us a document showing that the majority of files are pirated," and had to answer "no."

Court recessed early today, but tomorrow promises to be interesting as the head of music's global trade group IFPI takes the stand and testifies in English. But today's brief hearing left the pirates feeling buoyant; Swedish Pirate Party head Rick Falvinge, who has been covering the trial, summed it up with a one-word tweet: "PWNAGE."

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