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Pirate Bay Founder Fined For 'Continued Involvement'

Posted by Unknown on from the take-that-evildoer dept.

tekgoblin writes with an excerpt from TekGoblin: "The founders of The Pirate Bay have been hit with a bunch of punishments and other measures to prevent them from continuing. However Fredrik Neij was just fined by the Stockholm District court another 500,000 Swedish kronor ($70,690 US). Fredrik Neij and Gorrfrid Scatholm both had been banned from operating the site but Neij had been recently found still involved with the site. Neij already owes around 10.6 million."

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  1. Wrong name by pipatron · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's Gottfrid Svartholm, ffs.

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  2. Re:They deserve it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Women have a natural right not to be raped.

    Copyright is not a right at all. It's a privilege granted by "the people" to the copyright holder. Do you think "the people" extended copyrights? No, that was lobbyists and our so-called representatives. If people are being abused by a law created by people they feel do not represent them how do you expect them to have any respect for that law at all? Especially when that law isn't protecting anyone's natural rights...

    People deserve just compensation for their work. They do not deserve to receive compensation in perpetuity at the expense of sending others to jail or fining them into oblivion.