Archive for January 12th, 2010
Court may enforce fine as website still running Two founders of the Pirate Bay – a BitTorrent serach engine indexed files available on peer-to-peer file-sharing services – will have to pay a fine, as the the site is still open, says Stockholm District Court.
IDG News Service – The Stockholm District Court should decide that two of The Pirate Bay’s founders have to pay a fine since the file-sharing site is still open and they are still involved, according to a recent filing from the music industry.
The Stockholm District Court should decide that two of Pirate Bay’s founders have to pay 500,000 Swedish kronor since the file-sharing site is still open.
Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, two of the men found guilty for their role in operating The Pirate Bay file sharing site, are both once again in the recording industry’s crosshairs.