I read the quoted articles of the Penal code - and I think Sloncek can relax. Not only did he not distribute copyrighted material (suprnova only provided links to the material), it is also impossible to prove that someone else benefited matterialy or financially by using suprnova. Clearly the prosecutors didn’t feel strongly about the case - or they are utterly incompetent (my bet is that both statemets are correct)

     by pengovsky on December 21, 2005 at 9:21 am

Meh, everyone knew this anyway. How could the police even get a search warrant?  If anything, they should have gone after some downloaders.

     by crni on December 21, 2005 at 2:46 pm

Well, I can tell you from personal experience that "everyone" does not include Slovene civil servants. We had a market inspector on our radio station once and we actually ended up explaining to him the provision of the copyright law.

     by pengovsky on December 21, 2005 at 3:07 pm

By "everyone" I meant "everyone with an ounce of brain". Of course, civil servants are thus excluded.

     by crni on December 21, 2005 at 4:28 pm

I hope he will sue the state for all the psichological pain and all the expenses he had+ interest. Unfortunatelly it seems the pressure has damaged him and he won’t have the energy, but I think this state deserves to get a kick in the a** once and for all. The pitty is though that all the expenses have to be covered by the taxpayers and not by the f**ing (excuse my language) incompetent civil servants.All my best and my suport, we need more ppl like that to change this place.

     by Vlasta on December 21, 2005 at 5:21 pm

Unfortunately "this place" is beyond change…. Just a moment ago I came back home from a new-year-plus-christmas-party thrown by our belowed (ah, the sarcasm) prime minister who entertained journalists and/or editors of various semi-important media (my own included) and he had the balls to say that Slovenia has to become a leader and not a followers. History shows, that peoples, leaders or nations who talk about becoming leaders are almost certain to remain followers. Real leaders are too busy leading to do the talking.People like Sloncek do what they think is right (or at least what is not wrong). And still this God-forgotten-place-below-the-Alps makes it a public policy what is elsewhere a matter of hard lobbying and pressure on decision-makers. We are doomed to remain followers unless something is changed immediately. But since coup d’etat is not an option we might just as well give up.Expect more clamp-downs on people who share what they think should be free. Today it’s music, tommorow it’s information in general. Police state? No, just a way to "direct" the people towards the one and only Truth.I do apologize for any incoherence in this comment, but JJ really pulled my nerve tonight.

     by pengovsky on December 22, 2005 at 12:12 am

I always wondered how anti-piracy organizations all suddenly became so bothered with Suprnova exclusivelly. What about countless other torrent sites on the net, of which most still happily exist today. It seems like these media copyright desciples are all stupid by default. They always see ONE thing - usually the most obvious one - like Supnova or Napster some years before that - while they completely disregard everything else.I bow to Slon�?ek, though. He had balls of steel doing what he did. Getting noticed by some giants of the recording industry can surely ruin anyone’s life and he probably knew that. Not to mention there was no (obvious) profit made from the project.

     by freddie on December 22, 2005 at 2:05 am

People, use Free Software if you want free software. Idolizing sites
and people like that only makes things worse. Software prices go up,
companies use their leverage to push on the governments, governments
apply pressure to people and so on and so on.Simply just stop
using their software, use other alternatives. Using pirated software
might not be the same as stealing, but that doesn’t make it right.
Plain and simple, it’s wrong and it’s illegal. 

     by BigWhale on December 26, 2005 at 10:18 am

Oh, and btw. Vlasta, we DON’T need people like sloncek to change
‘this place’. It’s almost like saying that we need more arms dealers,
so we can arm ourselves and protect ourselves since police can’t do
their job. 

     by BigWhale on December 26, 2005 at 10:25 am

‘The giants of the recording industry’ sometime employed a lot of people who worked with a lot of entusiasm to bring you good quality music, whatever your

     by Urbanapodgana on December 28, 2005 at 4:40 pm