Pirate Bay founders jailed
It seems that there is no respite for any sort of Pirates these days.
Making the headline today is a technology news, expected but surprising in terms of the intensity of punishment – a year in jail for founders and $4.5m damages.
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.
The Pirate Bay is the world’s most high profile file-sharing website and was set up in 2003 by anti-copyright organisation Piratbyran, but for the last five years it has been run by individuals.
Millions of files are exchanged using the service every day.
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.
