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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Comments [3]
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.
Bad, Spell Check! Bad! (Blame it in the dog.)
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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