And it begins

[Goat]

Pirate Bay internet file-sharers face jail - Yahoo! News UK

Four internet file-sharers are to be jailed for breaking copyright law in a landmark case. Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail. They were linked to The Pirate Bay, the world's biggest free file-sharing website.

The verdict is being seen as a step toward helping music and film companies recoup millions of dollars in revenues lost through illegal downloads.

The Pirate Bay was set up in 2003 by anti-copyright organisation Piratbyran, but for the last five years it has been run by individuals.

A court statement read: "The court has sentenced each of them to one year in prison."

The prosecution had said that by financing, programming and administering the site, the four men promoted the infringement of property rights by the site's users.

 

[daza_1973]

Pirate Bay internet file-sharers face jail - Yahoo! News UK

Four internet file-sharers are to be jailed for breaking copyright law in a landmark case. Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail. They were linked to The Pirate Bay, the world's biggest free file-sharing website.

The verdict is being seen as a step toward helping music and film companies recoup millions of dollars in revenues lost through illegal downloads.

The Pirate Bay was set up in 2003 by anti-copyright organisation Piratbyran, but for the last five years it has been run by individuals.

A court statement read: "The court has sentenced each of them to one year in prison."

The prosecution had said that by financing, programming and administering the site, the four men promoted the infringement of property rights by the site's users.

If all file sharing sites are to eventually be shut down - expect broadband providers to counter-sue as to be honest who needs 50mb broadband if you can't download anything
I'd certainly go back to dial-up (sometimes I think I already have )

 

[davek]

Where does that leave spotify - GOT's music download site of preference?

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Where does that leave spotify - GOT's music download site of preference?

Has absolutely no relevance to spotify? Spotify is legal.

 

[Cal]

They can arrest me, i'm not arsed here.

 

[NeoNaoNeo]

Won't stop anything. They'll keep the servers up, and if not people will just go to Mininova, torrenreactor et al.

 

[Goat]

Yes, but they are being sneaky. At first it was, "We will sue everybody who downloads", nobody took any notice. So now they are going to jail all the mods and owners of these sites. I like the way they operate. But thankfully* they are fighting a losing battle.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

The pirate bay website is still up and still links all the same stuff. Nothing's changed, it's a PR exercise and there is basically no way taht they can shut down the whole torrent business as they are not a commercial enterprise, they are a worldwide network with no connection to each other other than the fact that the share the same ideals of freeing intellectual property