pirate bay

The Other Pirates

April 17, 2009

On Friday, a Swedish court ruled against the founders of the popular file-sharing website The Pirate Bay and found them guilty of assisting in the distribution of illegal content online. Mats Lewan, an editor at Ny Teknik, explains what the verdict means for file-sharing, for Sweden, and the world.

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Posted by: Jack April 17, 2009 - 10:49PM
Chicago

It might be interesting if OTM investigated Obama's filesharing stance. It might be interesting if OTM investigation whether any RIAA attorneys have found high positions in the DOJ. Nope, let's have more Fox News opinion pieces.

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Posted by: Chris Gray April 20, 2009 - 09:50AM
New Haven, CT

Bad, Spell Check! Bad! (Blame it in the dog.)

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Posted by: Patrick H. May 26, 2009 - 11:41PM
Chicago

Apparently, the site is still running. They just moved their servers and are not going to shut down.

The result is under review because he belonged to a few pro-copyright organizations along with the prosecutors.

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