The Pirate Bay found guilty, jail & $3.6 million fine
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversThe Pirate Bay, notorious for providing BitTorrent files of all things copyrighted and illegal have lost a trial in Sweden today.
The news first surfaced from founder Peter Sunde who used Twitter to break the news. Sunde said "according to leaked information from the court we lost (got the news last night). Trustworthy source as well." Sunde is also insisting "nothing will happen to TPB, us personally or file sharing what so ever. This is just a theater for the media."
The four defendants named as Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde have been sentenced to 1 year in prison for "aiding in copyright infringement" coupled with a fine of 30 million Swedish kronor (£2.4 million/$3.6 million).
A higher charge was dropped after shaky evidence at the beginning of the trial. The Motion Picture Association of America and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry are among those who have called for action to shut down the site. Critics of the trial claim Swedish authorities caved in to pressure from the US film industry.
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Comments(15)
this is just a shot across the boughs
this is just a shot across the bows of the torrent !
they forgot to mention how to get $3.6 million fine. bill fart, laugh hard and said: look
at me, they fined me $500,000,000 and you know what? i spitted on their rule
go
fvck yourself!
that means google is at as much fault as pirate bay
hi monster, you need to find some new language translation software. you wirte so many
posts and the english is unintelligible in all of them. good luck with that quest.
have a ook at al the other sites/companies that sell things they shouldn't. windows
takes the linux kernel, and although its open source, isnt it suposed to be marketed as
linux??? and what about other sites like microsoft itself. it practically gives away the
software. i just found a site that tells me a link to get to microsoft to upgrade any non
xp prosp3 computer to pro sp3 and theres no reinstalling. have a look. pirating is all
around. you can not take it away. for every site ou rip of its foundation another will pop
up just as good, or better. for all those people who think they can pul down tpb you are
wrong.
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some nongs write a lot of bullsh*t
the first 3 posts excluded, it's all a wall of text or massivly bad english. come on why
bother if you can't do it right!?
you can't mess with america guys. the place that can buy and kill anything. main
imperialism rule:rich = richer poor = poorer
eat your own s h i t now
who would want membership to site that sells secondhand software that's not legitimate
anyway. psychotic!
http://thepiratebay.org/special/2009epicwinanyhow.php
i have stated this previously kody, whats is your point? your posting appears to be like
you, a dimwited and meaningless. you are truely a fool!
kody: yip yap double drip
bill is laughing. come-on coders unite!
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By Skits on 17.04.2009 - 22:04