Sweden Court Sentences Pirate Bay Founders

World | April 17, 2009, Friday // 14:08
Sweden Court Sentences Pirate Bay Founders: Sweden Court Sentences Pirate Bay Founders Pirate Bay's first server as a museum exibit. "Nothing will happen to TPB, this is just theater for the media", Peter Sunde commented. Photo by BGNES

Four man behind the world's most high-profile file-sharing website, The Pirate Bay, were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail by a Swedish court.

Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were also ordered to pay SEK 30 M (GBP 2,4 M) in damages, the BBC reported.

"Nothing will happen to TPB, this is just theater for the media... I got the news last night that we lost... It used to be only movies, now even verdicts are out before the official release", Peter Sunde commented.

The damages were awarded to a number of entertainment companies, including Warner Bros, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, and Columbia Pictures.

No copyright content is hosted on The Pirate Bay's web servers; instead the site hosts "torrent" links to TV, film and music files held on its users' computers.

 

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