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FILESHARING WEB SITE The Pirate Bay says it is almost ready to stop serving Bittorrents. We reported earlier that Pirate Bay is moving towards Magnet links and a post on its web site confirms the shift. The Pirate Bay will stop serving Bittorrent trackers ...  

Peter Sunde, one of the co-founders of the infamous The Pirate Bay file-sharing search engine, argues that Big Content should start innovating and stop trying to use the courts and the law to put the genie back in the bottle.  

Pirate Bay captains Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström must finally walk the plank for their roles in running one of the biggest file-sharing sites on the Internet. Sweden’s Supreme Court denied on Wednesday the group’s ...  

It’s certainly not a good day to be a founder of The Pirate Bay. The legal saga centering on the founders of the file sharing site Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström has been ongoing for several years. So far, the founders of been appealing the court decisions further and further up the Swedish [...]  

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Three of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay’s founders -- Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundstrom -- will not be able to argue their case before the Swedish Supreme Court, meaning their previous jail sentences and fines imposed by a lower court of appeals will remain in effect, reports TorrentFreak. The Supreme Court announced its decision not to grant the appeal in the long-running Pirate Bay criminal trial. Found guilty in April 2009...  

[JURIST] The Swedish Supreme Court [official website, in Swedish] announced Wednesday that it will not hear an appeal of the copyright convictions of Fredrik Neji, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstroem for their involvement in running The Pirate Bay [website], a file-sharing website. After reviewing the case, the court found there were no special circumstances warranting review. The court could also have decided to hear the case if it determined a...  

Sweden’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the prison sentences of the four founders of The Pirate Bay, the notorious file-sharing service on Hollywood’s and the recording industry’s most-hated list. Peter Sunde faces eight months; Fredrik Neij 10 months; Carl Lundström four months and Gottfrid Svartholm, one year. They share combined fines of more than $6.8 [...]  

MALMO, Sweden — The founders of pioneering file-sharing site The Pirate Bay are facing jail after Sweden’s Supreme Court refused to hear their appeal. The thee founders, Fredrik Neij (33) Peter Sunde (33) and Gottfrid Svartholm (27), face sentences of ...  

The Pirate Bay is making good on its long-announced plan of moving from hosting a torrent-tracker to hosting "magnet links" that allow BitTorrent file-sharing without a centralized tracker. This will vastly reduce the amount of data that TPB needs to store and serve, so much so that the entire TPB index will only be 90MB [...]  

It looks like Pirate Bay's legal drama has finally come to a close in Sweden, where the Supreme Court today turned down the site's final appeal. At the center of the case are the file sharing site's founders -- Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström -- who have been battling Swedish prosecutors for quite a few years now. After being convicted of facilitating copyright infringement, the trio was initially sentenced to prison. They...  

Today's Supreme Court rejection against The Pirate Bay signals the start of a new campaign targeting 150 file-sharing sites, say anti-piracy figures. A lawyer for the Hollywood movie studios says she expects Swedish sites and those providing them with infrastructure will stop their activities today. Antipiratbyran say they will take legal action against those that don't.Source: Pirate Bay Verdict SignalsThreat Of Huge New Anti-Piracy Campaign  

According to numbers estimated by Nielsen Research, P2P file-sharing fell by 26 per cent year on year ... says IFPI – they have been edging back up again. Bittorrent was never designed to evade copyright enforcement, and P2P file-sharers remain an ...  

Today's Supreme Court rejection against The Pirate Bay signals the start of a new campaign targeting 150 file-sharing sites, say anti-piracy figures. A lawyer for the Hollywood movie studios says she expects Swedish sites and those providing them with infrastructure will stop their activities today. Antipiratbyran say they will take legal action against those that don't.