Are we seeing the start of an witness bribing epidemic ?
http://torrentfreak.com/ifpi-expert-witness-in-pirate-bay-case-worked-for-ifpi-080424/The only expert witness used in the case where the IFPI campaigned for The Pirate Bay to be blocked in Denmark, was previously employed by the IFPI. Now working for an anti-piracy company, Kristian Løkkegaard used to work for a law firm serving the IFPI but the court didn’t know this.
When a conflict of interest rears its head, it can cast a long shadow over someone’s objectivity, or in the case of legal proceedings, jeopardize a whole case. Yesterday we reported that a key player in The Pirate Bay case - a policeman - has been working at Warner Bros, one of the plaintiffs in the case.
Shocking, yes. But what if there were two similar events, on subsequent days?
Today it has been revealed by Computerworld that the expert witness - the ONLY expert witness - in the Danish Pirate Bay blocking case, was previously employed by the IFPI, a fact revealed through his LinkedIn social networking page.
Kristian Løkkegaard is now working for DtecNet Software, an anti-piracy company. DtecNet Software originally stems from Antipiratgruppen (Danish Anti-Piracy outfit) and Johan Schlüter Law Firm, where several of the partners are co-owners of the internationally successful firm.
It is starting to look as though the Cartel is losing its grip on reality and are willing to seriously bend the legal rules in their favour such is their fear of losing a case fairly, this is as the report says the second time htis week they media giants have been seen to be leaving themselves open to allegations of bribing key witnesses.
