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Pirate Bay Trio Lose Appeal
nk497 writes "Three of the four founders of The Pirate Bay have lost an appeal against their conviction last year of helping to share copyrighted material. It wasn't a total waste of time, however. The three have had their one-year jail sentences cut to between four and ten months. (The fourth founder was too ill to appear in court, and will appeal separately.) The foursome also had their fine bumped from 32 million kronor ($4.5 million) to 46 million kronor ($6.5 million)."
Only copyright infringement isn't a crime. And no one stole a thing. The content creators and copyright holders still have their inventory.
You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.
... it's hard to understand why Google haven't been indicted as their index contains many, many more links to torrent files than the Pirate Bay's does)...
The primary purpose of the pirate bay was always being a torrent search engine. There is nothing essentially wrong with that, however, TBP refused to remove links to copyrighted material. What's more TBP leadership always took great pains to make public their utter contempt for anybody requesting that links to their copyrighted material on TBP be removed. I have no desire to get involved in the whole "copyright is evil" debate but let's at least drop the hypocrisy for fuck's sake, with a name like "The Pirate Bay" it's not exactly a mystery what that website's primary purpose was. With google the presence of torrent files in their index is a side effect of what the search engine was primarily designed to do and they don't post your requests that they remove torrent links to your copyrighted material from their search engine index on their corporate website and make tasteless fun of you. Figuring out the difference isn't exactly cutting edge rocket science.