Court Finds Pirate Bay Defendants Guilty, With Jail Sentence

By CircleID Reporter

A Swedish court on Friday found all four defendants guilty in a copyright test case involving one of the world's biggest free file-sharing websites.

"The Stockholm disctrict court has today found guilty the four individuals that were charged with accessory to breaching copyright laws," the court said in a statement. "The court has sentenced each of them to one year in prison."

Related topics: Law, P2P

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except that... Veni Markovski  –  Apr 23, 2009 7:45 PM PST

The Judge is a member of Pro-Copyright Groups