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Day #1 of The Pirate Bay 'Spectrial' in Sweden

By soulxtc

Much anticipated case against the BitTorrent tracker site's founders for copyright infringement has begun. The four founders of The Pirate Bay, Hans Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundström have headed to a Swedish court to fight charges of accessory and conspiracy to break Swedish copyright law in a landmark case that the entire BitTorrent community is watching very closely. If convicted, they could face up to two years in prison. In a pre-trail press conference held yesterday, the four remained defiant and stressed they've done nothing wrong: What would a conviction in many instances could lead to for The Pirate Bay? Nothing. They have failed to take down the site sooner, "says Gottfrid Svartholm Warg.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on February 16, 2009 (boomark / email).