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One year in jail and fines. Read the full story, including a discussion of the larger legal implications, here.
The four founders of The Pirate Bay, an online site for free sharing of music and films, were found guilty of contributing to copyright infringement and sentenced to one-year prison terms each.Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi and Carl Lundstroem received their sentences in Stockholm today, according to a district court statement. The court said the defendants will have to pay compensation and damages of 30 million kronor ($3.6 million), compared with the more than 100 million kronor claimed by prosecutors.
Jeff’s Thoughts:
This was the expected verdict and I agree with it. While privacy does come into play here, I think the Pirate Bay could have done things to curb piracy. It’s a touchy subject, but Pirate Bay could have monitored downloads on it’s own and given notice to those who were breaking the law.
If you had an establishment and you allowed people to come in and play Russian Roulette, expect to see some jail time when the cops shut your shop down.
They got off easy with 1 year and only 3.6 million. The next site to do that probably won’t be so lucky. Hopefully they won’t shut down the Torrent site, but instead get someone in there to take over, create a content checking system and block those items deemed illegal to redistribute. After all, we still need good Torrent sites for LEGAL content.
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