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    US Authorities Take Action Against Overseas Pirates

    Originally posted by BBC
    A court in Sweden has handed down its verdict on four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's biggest file-sharing website.

    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.

    In a Twitter posting, Mr Sunde said: "Nothing will happen to TPB, this is just theatre for the media."

    Mr Sunde went on to say that he "got the news last night that we lost".

    "It used to be only movies, now even verdicts are out before the official release."

    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.

    Critics of the trial say Swedish authorities only brought the case because of pressure from the US film industry.
    Well, this is going to take a while to sort out...
    You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.
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    Damn that sucks. I use TPB all the time.
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      • #4
        I eagerly await the followup suit against Google.
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        • #5
          Originally posted by Koyaanisqatsi View Post
          I eagerly await the followup suit against Google.
          QFMFT. Sweden just opened a massive can of worms finding them guilty...
          You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.

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          • #6
            You Tube is cutting back pending their merger into a premium site, as they call it.
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            • #7
              Non sequetur...
              You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.

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              • #8
                pirates
                Unbelievable!

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                • #9
                  My thread was better.
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