I just heard about this verdict.
Anyone else following this? It's crazy that it has gone this far if anyone asks me.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8003799.stm
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/17/swe...jail/index.html
http://thepiratebay.org/special/2009epicwinanyhow.php

Gah, Looks like this will go on for a while yet though.

Yeah I heard the other day, not sure what to think. Won't really effect anything in the piracy world.

Makes me raeg. Looks like they're in good spirits though, so hopefully everything will be alright.

Yea I don't think it will change anything, after all the organised piracy mafia won't go away, and pirate bay people are just running a public content search engine, there not hosting the files, they link to them same as google, and there just one of masses of torrent search sites (though they do have what looks like a very supportive name) that link to the same content.

Makes me wonder if any other torrent sites will be treated the same in the coming future, but heh, it's all fuelled by corporate greed at the end of the day.

This would've happened in any other country ages ago, seen plenty of sites get shut down and the owners punished. Only reason this seems to be especially newsworthy is because TPB is the biggest torrent site, and that previously its owners have always managed to get off lightly and continue operation because of a loophole in Sweden's law - until now.

I'm not particular angry because I rarely use TPB (not that it's going to be taken down - just the owners getting done as far as I know) and that frankly they had this coming being a bunch of cocky gits all these years and goading the authorities and copyright holders.

They won one of the court cases which was supposedly "The cases that will help piracy." Other then that they get 1 year in jail, and got to pay up a few million.

its fine, they switched countries now, haha