File Sharing Equals Jail And $3.6 Million
I stopped downloading from Napster and LimeWire a long time ago after hearing bizarre stories of college students being reported by the local internet service providers. That new album or latest Adobe hack all of a sudden didn’t seem worth the embarrassment. But not these four dudes from The Pirate Bay. Turns out they ran the world’s largest free file sharing site from Sweden until the law and copyright police caught up to them. Each were sentenced to a year in jail today for copyright infringement and ordered to pay $3.6 million in compensation for lost revenue from companies such as Sony BMG, Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros., MGM, 20th Century Fox Films, and Universal.
Talk About Balls
A video on The Pirate Bay’s website showed one of the four defendants, Peter Sunde, holding up a mock IOU note for 31 million Swedish crowns ($3.6 million) in court, followed by the initials “JK” for “just kidding.”
Well- kiddies, I hope you’ve learned the lesson. Piracy is too much of a pain in the ass and not worth going to jail for.
~Nina
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