Pirate Bay P2P Trial Begins in Sweden

Here is something for all of you P2P guys need to be watching. If this thing goes down in a bad way. Well it is going to get real ugly for all BitTorrent folks everywhere.

"The Pirate Bay's copyright infringement trial is now under way in
Sweden, becoming one of the most watched P2P trials. The site is
accused of helping users illegally downloaded movies, music, computer
games, and more from its web site. If the site owners are convicted,
they could spend two years in prison and a fine around $150,000. In
addition, many of the leading companies in the motion picture
industries are wanting an additional $14.3 million. The Pirate Bay is
the world's largest source for BitTorrent trackers, while they do not
host illegal content they do provide a means of finding such content.
In May 2006 the company was raided by Swedish police who seized their
servers and in January of last year the owners were charged with the
copyright infringement."

I got my popcorn. Let the show begin.

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