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

[Gavin Ballard]

As Forbes points out, this decision also raises some interesting questions with regard to Google: 

http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/17/pirate-bay-google-technology-internet-pirate-bay.html 



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Kerr" <billkerr at gmail.com> 
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Pirate Bay Founders Sentenced to Jail, Fines for Violating Copyright Law 

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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