[Intellectual Property Stands Trial: The Court Case]
On the Saturday afternoon the main hall of Paradiso will be transformed into a temporary court room. While the legal battles against Napster,MP3.com, Scour.net and others rage on, the net.congestion festival wishes o reverse the charges. Who is operating in the public interest here?

As a reply to the legal theatre in court rooms world-wide, net.congestion holds its own trial and puts Intellectual Property on the stand. In front of our honourable upper judge, and a strictly impartial jury, we will call a series of expert witnesses to testify for and against the current practices of copyright and the legal protection of intellectual property.