Pirate Bay founders Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström were all found guilty of promoting the copyright infringement of others, and sentenced to serve one year in prison and pay a fine of over 3.5 million U.S. dollars.
Trouble started in 2006 with a police raid. The raid effectively shut down Pirate Bay.... for three whole days. Obviously feeling invincible the websites founders have continued on; supporting piracy and file sharing. It has now bit them in the ass. The website itself has felt no ill effects; Pirate Bay is one of the largest BitTorrent operations in the world and has not even been scratched while its founders appeal the verdict. This may be subject to change but for now you can still download torrents off of Pirate Bay.
Too bad , but as long as it doesn't interfere with the japanese bestiality/goo/trannie/anal/scat/watersports/shotacon porn I'm downloading right now , I should be fine ...
Anyway, that kinda sucks. I've never used TBP, but it's still a big loss. It's kinda the same thing with Circuit City: I never shopped there, but it's still sad to see something so big die. RIP.
They're appealing against the ruling buying them plenty of time (a few years at least). Even if they do go to jail the site will stay up. They have more than enough back-up servers in order to prevent any future raids and I'm sure they have people that will take over while they're gone.
Even though The Pirate Bay is well known (mainly because of all the controversy), I prefer Mininova.
Its kinda lame that governments can decide to take away an entire year from a persons life, just for being a webmaster for a website used for people to upload torrents to share.
Good, I can't stand the internet generation thinking it's ok to download games and movies without paying for them. I hope they get butt raped and their site gets closed down permanently.
IronPikeman has the right of it, appeals are guaranteed. A case with this much publicity will likely find its way to the Swedish Supreme Court before it's through.
ArrestedDevelopper: They aren't going to prison. They'll appeal the sentence and it's probably take a couple of years at least to settle things. And even if they are found guilty when everything is said and done, the website will still be around, if not another one or 5 will take it's place.
I really think they will be able to get away from this with little to no prison time. It will probably be commuted to a lesser sentence and large fine.
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(# 0) on 04/19/2009 21:59
(# 1) on 04/19/2009 22:01
(# 2) on 04/19/2009 22:09
Anyway, that kinda sucks. I've never used TBP, but it's still a big loss. It's kinda the same thing with Circuit City: I never shopped there, but it's still sad to see something so big die. RIP.
(# 3) on 04/19/2009 22:16
(# 4) on 04/19/2009 22:16
But it isn't dead. The leaders are fucked, sure. But the site is still safe and sound for the time being.
(# 5) on 04/19/2009 22:33
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(# 7) on 04/19/2009 23:05
Even though The Pirate Bay is well known (mainly because of all the controversy), I prefer Mininova.
(# 8) on 04/19/2009 23:19
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In fact, the first server that TPB used is now in a museum.
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(# 14) on 04/20/2009 05:06
TPB is part of the net now, and not going anywhere, anytime soon.
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(# 17) on 04/20/2009 17:13
This doesn't really change anything as far as PirateBay is concerned.
(# 18) on 04/20/2009 17:17
(# 19) on 05/15/2009 00:51