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03 Aug 09

Oy Tenenbaum! RIAA wins $675,000, or $22,500 per song - Ars Technica

Oy Tenenbaum! RIAA wins $675,000, or $22,500 per song

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19 Jun 09

Thomas verdict: willful infringement, $1.92 million penalty - Ars Technica

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11 May 09

28 Apr 09

The Pirate Bay verdict goes English, and we dish the dirt - Ars Technica

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Who paid for the lawyers? The older (and much richer) defendant Carl Lundström apparently paid for his own lawyer, but the three Pirate Bay admins did not. Their lawyers were all supplied and eventually paid for by the Swedish government, and they weren't cheap. Fredrik Neij's lawyer, for instance, was given 949,025 kronor (about $115,600) for his services; 35,525 kronor of that amount was given for "time wasted."
On moving to Argentina or Russia. As it became clear that Sweden might not be the best long-term base for The Pirate Bay, Carl Lundström explored the possibility of moving the site to Russia or Argentina—and he asked the Swedish Embassy for help.
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- Legal advice. Why the interest in getting out of Sweden? A new copyright law came into effect in 2005, and Lundström worried that it would make the site illegal. "Carl Lundström contacted a lawyer," says the verdict. "Following discussions with his legal representative, he e-mailed Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and mentioned that as of 1 July 2005, the operation would be unlawful and that they should, therefore, consider relocating the operation to another country."
- "In accordance with what will be further demonstrated below, all the defendants were aware that a large number of the website’s users were engaged in the unlawful disposal of copyright-protected material. By providing a website with advanced search functions and easy uploading and downloading facilities, and by putting individual filesharers in touch with one other through the tracker linked to the site, the operation run via The Pirate Bay has, in the opinion of the District Court, facilitated and, consequently, aided and abetted these offences."

21 Apr 09

Sorting out the Pirate Bay verdict | Digital Media - CNET News

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During the trial, prosecutor Håkan Roswall also pointed out that very little is needed to be sentenced for assistance. He referred, as precedent, to a case several decades ago when a person was sentenced for assisting in a case of mayhem, only for having held the culprit's coat.
First, the court establishes--through the defendants' statements and e-mail correspondence, and through letters from copyright owners published on the Web site--that the defendants all knew about copyright-protected files being shared by Pirate Bay users.

Second, the court demonstrates that through the Piratebay.org site, they offered both a search function for torrents (small files pointing to the desired file), means for easily uploading and downloading the torrents, and a tracker--the server that keeps file sharers linked while they swap.
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- Relying on the defendants' statements, e-mail correspondence, and accounting records, the court shows that they have collective responsibility--all having been in the position to act, and all having known about the others' actions. This is also why all four received the same verdict, though they clearly held different roles. Warg and Neij are the co-founders of The Pirate Bay. Sunde is a programmer and a spokesman there, and Lundstr öm offered technical services to the site in 2005.