[Year 12 IT Apps] Pirate Bay Founders Sentenced to Jail, Fines for Violating Copyright Law

[Bill Kerr]

it will be interesting to see how the Pirate Party goes in the next European
parliamentary elections (June 7th)

http://www.thelocal.se/18954/20090419/

The Pirate Party organized demonstrations against the convictions at several
cities across Sweden on Saturday. More than 1,000 people turned out in
Stockholm to show support for The Pirate Bay defendents and the practice of
file sharing ...

Since the Stockholm district court passed judgment on April 17th the Pirate
Party confirmed on Saturday afternoon that its membership has swelled to
21,000.

The party's youth league is now, with its 10,000 members, larger than all of
the parliamentary party youth organizations.

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Roland Gesthuizen
<rgesthuizen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yes, remember a trial in the 80’s when the film industry sued Sony for
> manufacturing VHS tapes that were used for 'illegally' copying movies? (now
> known as time shifting) .. history just repeating itself.
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._v._Universal_City_Studios
>
> Regards Roland
>
> 2009/4/18 Anderson, Stuart L <anderson.stuart.l at edumail.vic.gov.au>
>
>  I'm sure this will lead to the demise of
>> torrents...........................................and pigs might fly.
>>
>>
>> http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/04/17/pirate-bay-founders-sentenced-to-jail-fines-for-violating-copyright-law/
>>
>>
>> - Stuart Anderson
>> Kambrya College
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