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Pirate Bay Cofounder Indicted on Hacking Charges

The Pirate Bay cofounder Gottfrid Svartholm was indicted today on hacking charges unrelated to his one-year prison sentence for running the world's most notorious and illicit file-sharing service.

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Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 Net News No Comments

Large Piracy ‘Topsite’ Trial Ends in Suspended Sentences, ‘Disappointing’ Damages

‘Angel Falls’ was the name of a ‘warez topsite’, a system of servers used by higher-level Internet pirates. These sites often develop into a source from where all kinds of unauthorized digital media cascade...

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Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 Net News No Comments

Pirate Bay Founder Released From Solitary Confinement

Following his arrest late August, Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm was deported from Cambodia to Sweden. Initially it was assumed that Gottfrid was sent to Sweden because of the outstanding one year prison sentence...

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Sunday, December 9th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Member of IMAGiNE Torrent Release Group Jailed for 40 months

The end of last week’s  reports listed a rather unfortunate record – the longest prison sentence for file sharing offences to date: Gregory Cherwonik, one of the members of the BitTorrent release group “iMAGiNE”...

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Thursday, December 6th, 2012 Net News No Comments

IMAGiNE BitTorrent Piracy Group “Sysop” Jailed 40 months

September last year IMAGiNE stopped distributing new films via their private BitTorrent tracker UnleashTheNet. As IMAGiNE was one of the Internet’s leading BitTorrent release groups, their absence quickly led to rumors that the group...

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Friday, November 30th, 2012 Net News No Comments