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No Pirate Bay Appeal Until Next Summer
When The Pirate Bay trial ended with the site’s founders being sentenced to one year in jail and fined $4 million, a lot of people were shocked. Many even put the future of P2P under question, but it was soon obvious for anyone who knew a little about file sharing that p2p was not really in danger; moreover, it wanted revenge and it soon came up with new sites to provide what The Pirate Bay had become popular for. However, not even for Pirate Bay things were not sure to be dead and buried.
Continue reading »Studios Demand Court Shutter Pirate Bay
Hollywood is urging a Swedish court to shutter The Pirate Bay, the world’s most notorious BitTorrent tracker, in the wake of the site’s four co-founders being convicted of facilitating copyright infringement. “They’ve been sentenced to prison for criminal activities but haven’t stopped carrying out those activities,” Monique Wadstad, the lawyer for Disney, Universal, Warner Bros and Columbia Pictures told English-language Swedish media . Pirate Bay administrators Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde were found guilty in April of facilitating copyright infringement, along with Carl Lundström, who was accused of funding the five-year-old operation.
Continue reading »Pirate Bay Launches VPN Service
The operators of The Pirate Bay launched a long-awaited VPN service Monday, promising to make file sharers and other internet users more anonymous online. The IPREDATOR Global Anonymity Service , at about $7 monthly, is named for Sweden’s IPRED law that went into force in April. That law empowers copyright owners to acquire data from ISPs identifying people linked to file sharing.
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