TPB- IDK if anyone found out about the trail.

PSP Guru Joined: 07 Apr 2007 Posts: 2405

Dash-hacks.net wrote:

The verdict in the case of The Pirate Bay Four was announced. All four defendants were accused of ‘assisting in making copyright content available’. Peter Sunde: Guilty. Fredrik Neij: Guilty. Gottfrid Svartholm: Guilty. Carl Lundström: Guilty. The four receive 1 year in jail each and fines totaling $3,620,000.

The court said that the four defendants worked as a team, were aware that copyrighted material was being shared using The Pirate Bay and that they made it easy and assisted the infringements. It categorized the infringements as ’severe’. The judge said that the users of The Pirate Bay committed the first offense by sharing files and the four assisted this.

While the court did not agree with the plaintiff’s exaggerated estimates of losses, it still set the damages at 30 million SEK ($3,620,000). This a hugely significant amount and the court has ordered that the four should pay this amount between them.

The judge also stated that the usage of BitTorrent at The Pirate Bay is illegal. Rest assured, other torrent sites hosted in Sweden will be keeping a close eye on developments.

I Figured i'd share this with everyone, Dated April 17,2009.

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 5024

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/25/1723222

Team XLink Developer Joined: 28 Nov 2007 Posts: 2338

Just about everyone who's ever used a torrent is following this Wink

Kai Lover Joined: 23 Dec 2007 Posts: 911

Good thing i have no friends from Sweden, Best luck for the people who do.

Kai Admirer Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 410

can anybody sum up what -Ricochet- wrote? or what it is about? this is toooo difficult english for me :S
is it about www.piratebay.org ? whats the matter with it?