Friday, April 17, 2009

Swedes take bold steps to tackle pirates

A court in Sweden found that the Pirate Bay site (a large file sharing website) was guilty of promoting copyright violations and sentenced Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde - the founders and one employee - to a year in jail. The founders, all apparently named after pieces of Ikea furniture, vowed to keep the site running.

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