arstechnica.com - 4/17/2009
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The Pirate Bay "spectrial" has ended in a guilty verdict, prison sentences for the defendants, and a shared 30 million kronor ($3.5 million) fine. According to the Swedish district court , the operators of the site were guilty of assisting copyright infringement even though The ...
arstechnica.com - 4/10/2009
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In addition to The Pirate Bay's introduction of
an anonymizing VPN , it also tried to hit...
the social scene by allowing users to easily share torrents on Facebook. Unsurprisingly, the world's largest social network was not too happy about ...
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Facebook not interested in Pirate Bay booty, blocks torrents
techreport.com - 4/23/2009
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The lawyer representing The Pirate Bay's founders intends
to demand a retrial due to alleged bias from...
the judge, according to the Associated Press. As we wrote last week, Judge Tomas Norstrom deemed the founders of the notorious BitTorrent tracker guilty of helping users violate copyrights. He ...
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Pirate Bay lawyer claims bias, wants retrial
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Pirate Bay founders found guilty, get jail sentence
TechSpot —
After weeks of deliberation, a Swedish district court has ended the much-publicized Pirate Bay trial with a guilty verdict for all four defendants. Each has been sentenced to one year in jail and must pay a combined total of 30 million kronor ($3.54 million) in damages to the film and music industries down from the 117 million kronor fine originally sought by content owners. The defendants were found guilty of assisting copyright infringement, not the original charge of breaching copyright, which was ...
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arstechnica.com 5/21/2009 —
No one's happy about The Pirate Bay verdict. The site admins, who are now on the hook for a collective 30 million kronor in damages plus one year each in jail, have charged that the judge was biased . But the movie and music businesses ...
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arstechnica.com 2/13/2009 —
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Universal Music chief renews commitment to P2P battle —
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