Founders Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, along with two other employees Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström, were sentenced to a year in jail after being found guilty in a Swedish court of making 33 copyright-protected files accessible for illegal downloading on the website Piratebay.org.
Read more »Pirate Bay Owners: 1 Yr Prison, $3.6 m fines
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The Pirate Bay Trial: A Huge Spectacle
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The Pirate Bay, the most popular P2P files sharing website has been brought under trial by the recording and movie industries. Already, the 'Pirate Bus' has appeared, and 50% of charges have been dropped. Will there be a Pirate Party in Canada?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party