Pirates download £12bn of music, video and other copyright content every year, according to a new report published by the government today. That’s an awful lot of Lost episodes: read on to find out how the figures breakdown.
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A lawyer of one of the Pirate Bay four has called for a retrial, after Swedish news sources put the judge in cahoots with several pro-copyright groups. We knew this was going to get messy, but we didn’t see this twist coming.
The Pirate Bay admins have hit back at the guilty verdict and prison sentence handed down to them by a Swedish court on Friday, declaring that “the site will live on!” Looks like The Pirate Bay won’t be scuttling the ship without a fight…
The Pirate Bay four may have been found guilty and sentenced to prison this morning, but that hasn’t put a stop to their swashbuckling attitude. Peter Sunde, one of the site’s founders, has just laid the smackdown, telling the world that “we can’ t pay and we wouldn’t pay.”
UPDATE: The Pirate Bay defendants may have been found guilty, but curiously, the verdict hasn’t included an order to shut down the website. Is this the win the entertainment industry has hailed?
The Pirate Bay trial verdict is in: the notorious P2P site admins have been found guilty of flouting copyright law and handed down a hefty punishment. But what does this mean for us?
The Pirate Bay trial verdict tomorrow could change internet and copyright law forever, and even if many in the media have failed to recognise the significance so far, one institution certainly hasn’t: the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology. It’s bought one of the Pirate Bay’s servers, and put it on display in a museum.
A new feature appeared on Facebook last month, letting people share links to torrents tracked by the Pirate Bay with friends with one click. The entertainment industry was none too happy about this, and neither is Facebook: the social network has just banned all Pirate Bay links from its site.
