EU SWEDEN PIRATE BAY
AP News 2009-04-17 10:26:51
A crowd of journalists press to get a copy of the Pirate Bay trial verdict Friday April 17, 2009 at the court house in Stockholm, Sweden. Four men linked to popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay were convicted Friday of breaking Sweden's copyright law by helping millions of users freely download music, movies and computer games on the Internet. In a landmark ruling, the Stockholm district court sentenced Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom to one year each in prison. They were also ordered to pay damages of 30 million kronor ($3.6 million) to a series of entertainment companies, including Warner Bros, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI and Columbia Pictures. The Pirate Bay provides a forum for its estimated 22 million users to download content through so-called torrent files. (AP Photo/Fredrik Persson)
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