Archive for October 31st, 2009
A district court in Stockholm has ordered the founders of popular BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay to shut down their website or face a fine. Pirate Bay admins Godfrey Svartholm Warg and Fredrik Neij could both be on the hook for 500,000 kroner—which translates to $71,500—if the site remains operational. The court order might not [...]
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay should be closed, and if it isn’t two of the founders have to pay a 500,000 Swedish kronor ($71,500) fine each.