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Exposing a clear misunderstanding of how .torrent files work, the prosecution was forced to drop all charges except those of "making available," a term common among all file sharing suits.

The Pirate Party's Rick Falkvinge summed up the shortened day by saying, "After this morning's total collapse of the prosecution, I'm shocked to think how Roswell [Håkan Roswall, Swedish Chamber of Prosecutors] may have just wasted three years. Three Years! To have prepared everything in three years just to be forced to abandon half of it after only twelve hours of negotiation?"

Roswall's arraignment of the Pirate Bay was fundamentally flawed, and the .torrent files used as evidence could not be connected to the site's tracker. The Pirate Bay's Fredrik Neij pointed out that the prosecution did not fully understand how the technology worked, and that the evidence did not prove any culpability in the reproduction of copyrighted works. Tech blogger Oscar Swartz noted that the prosecution seemed to be completely unaware of much of the torrent technology that Neij brought up.

IFPI, the organization leading the prosecution issued a statement this morning that said, "It's a largely technical issue that changes nothing in terms of our compensation claims and has no bearing whatsoever on the main case against The Pirate Bay. In fact it simplifies the prosecutor's case by allowing him to focus on the main issue, which is the making available of copyrighted works."