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Wednesday 1 February 2012

The founders of The Pirate Bay will go well in prison


The sentence fell that night. Started in 2009, the trial against the founders of the download site The Pirate Bay has had their appeal to the Swedish Supreme Court rejected. Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström were sentenced respectively to 10, 8 and 4 months in prison-bound 5 million in damages.

The decision confirms that imposed in November 2010. Peter Sunde, who responded via his blog, did not seem surprised by this announcement: "The entertainment lobby has intimidated Sweden. And not just Sweden. We can do with legislation such as SOPA, PIPA, ACTA IPRED, IPRED2, TPP, TRIPS, to name a few, "he acknowledges.