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This morning in Sweden the founders of popular torrent seeking site The Pirate Bay, have been found guilty of “assisting the distribution of illegal content online”. They face a year in prison and a $3.6 million fine. As with most big court cases, the decision will be appealed – so it’s not entirely over yet. Moving the case to the high court will mean an even lengthier process.<\/p>\n
The cavalier attitude of The Pirate Bay’s defendants, and the errors made by the prosecution has helped to give many the impression the judges decision would have been the reverse, so this result certainly comes as a surprise to a lot of people.<\/p>\n
Who knows what knock on effect this will have? It could trigger more court cases against websites that allow users to find illegally copied material, or maybe worry people into downloading shared files less. According to a post on The Torrent Freak<\/a>, the judge in Sweden also said that using BitTorrent file sharing at the Pirate Bay was illegal, although it’s unclear whether this has any broader implications or not.<\/p>\n The debate about sharing files is sure to rage on regardless of this case, and it’s worth remembering that it was not the web site that was on trial, rather the individuals who ran it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning in Sweden the founders of popular torrent seeking site The Pirate Bay, have been found guilty of “assisting the distribution of illegal content online”. They face a year in prison and a $3.6 million fine. As with most big court cases, the decision will be appealed – so it’s not entirely over yet. … Continue reading “Pirate Bay trial: Guilty!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-8022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t