Pirate Bay defendants found guilty, sentenced to jail
April 17th, 2009
Pirate Bay was found guilty in Sweden. It’s all over the web, with Corry Doctorow’s post on Boing Boing a good place to start:
A more interesting question is whether The Pirate Bay will disappear now. After the illegal seizure of its servers in 2006, The Pirate Bay supposedly adopted a distributed architecture with failover servers in other jurisdictions that were unlikely to cooperate with EU orders. If The Pirate Bay shuts down, it’s certain that something else will spring up in its wake, of course — just as The Pirate Bay appeared in the wake of the closure of other, more “moderate” services.
The Guardian has a cool timeline and story here. Guess we’ll just have to wait for the appeal.