A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case. Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail. They were also ordered to pay $4.5m (£3m) in damages.
Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail.
They were also ordered to pay $4.5m (£3m) in damages.
As I understand it, after much reading, only a severe misinterpretation of Swedish Law could lead to these sentences. The Pirates will surely appeal and keep the issue in the media. The cowardly political appeasement toward the Global Entertainment Combines will come back to haunt the politicians. You can't be me, I'm taken
