Yes yes, GMT+1, do you think it would be some other timezone making the trial end in the middle of the night at local time?
Also I don't understand why people have hard time using 24 hour clock, especially when in English language "fourteen hundred" sounds much better.
Historical precedent, the same reason we still use our silly method of measurements. It sounds more natural, at least for most people in America, to use the 12-hour clock. Likewise, you having learned it the other way would probably prefer a 24-hour clock regardless of how it was pronounced.
On topic, gotta love how they calculate damages and revenue. It's as if the possibility of anyone creating something like TPB would ever do it for anything other than money doesn't exist. I got a kick out of, “It’s easy to come in contact with the users by leaving a message in the comments field" too. I'm sure it'd be really practical to ask for damages across every torrent.
Also, how seriously can anyone make the claim that software piracy is the exact same thing as stealing a physical copy? There's no lost product, and there's no guarantee that anyone would have bought it if the alternative didn't exist regardless.