Pirate Bay Founders Acquitted In Belgium

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 10, 2015 @04:29AM from the not-guilty-of-internetular-songslaughter dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A Belgian court has acquitted Pirate Bay co-founders Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij, and Carl Lundström of criminal copyright infringement charges. They created the site in 2003, and were found guilty of similar charges in Sweden in 2009. The men have had continued legal problems since then, and one such case arose in Belgium for alleged copyright crimes committed between September, 2011 and November, 2013. However, since the founders have had nothing to do with the site since 2006, the prosecution couldn't make its case.

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Doesn't matter by Anonymous Coward · 2015-07-10 04:44 · Score: 5, Insightful

Constant legal harassment and a barrage of law suits is enough to make their life miserable, so it's not necessary to actually judge them guilty. That's how the modern system works.