Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 18, 2009 at 11:14:00 AM CEST
Content Industry Applauds Pirate Bay Guilty Verdicts
Content providers expressed satisfaction Friday with the sentence meted out to the four founders of The Pirate Bay, who were found guilty of criminal copyright infringement by a Stockholm court. They will be jailed for a year and fined $3.6 million.
The court ruled the operations of the notorious BitTorrent tracker were conducted "commercially and in an organized manner."
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