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  • Pirate Bay four jailed for breaking copyright in Swedish file-sharing trial (File Sharing)

    04/17/2009 6:47:21 AM PDT · by tlb · 4 replies · 445+ views
    telegraph ^ | 17 Apr 2009 | Rupert Neate
    The founders of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay have been sentenced to a year in jail in Sweden for breaking copyright laws by helping millions of users download music, movies and computer games for free. The four were also ordered to pay $3.6 m (£2.4m) in damages to copyright holders, including Warner Brothers, MGM, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox Films, Sony and Universal, according to Swedish media reports. In a Twitter posting before sentencing, Mr Sunde said: "Nothing will happen to TPB [the Pirate Bay], this is just theatre for the media." The Pirate Bay provides a forum for its...