Half of the charges against the four men behind the torrents business on Pirate Pay were dropped on the second day of trial. After the ones who directed the users to copyrighted content had put on a big show on their first day of trial by bringing on a pirate bus outside the court and calling up for fans and supporters, the whole thing might have turned out to be in their favor.

“The Local” newspaper from Sweden announced that the prosecutor Hakan Roswall came to court today and asked to take the "complicity in the production of copyrighted material" from the charges. The only thing that makes them guilty now is that they were accomplices in making copyrighted content available to their users.

The trial is now concerned in making the four men responsible for allowing free access to copyrighted material and not on how they copied the files. Another case alike, which Richard Falkvinge, the Pirate Bay leader, wrote on Twitter about, was Jammie Thomas’, who had been accused of the same thing.

Yet, the judge decided not to charge Thomas at all because of the lack of evidence. The verdict was put aside because of the doubts related to the absence of actual evidence of the file distribution. Also the supporters of the Pirate Bay site said that it doesn’t directly host files and compared it to YouTube, which actually hosts the content.

Peter Danowsky, music industry legal consultant, stated that the change made on the second day of trial was about simplification of the matter. He added that this doesn’t change a thing in the compensation claims set by many record labels. The only thing that the judge made was to focus on the main issue, that is on how did the site owners put the copyrighted works at free download.