Pirate Bay founders sent to jail

April 17, 2009

Breaking : The Pirate Bay founders have been sent to jail for a year.

The founders of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay have been sentenced to a year in jail in Sweden for breaking copyright laws by helping millions of users download music, movies and computer games for free.

The four were also ordered to pay $3.6 m (£2.4m) in damages to copyright holders, including Warner Brothers, MGM, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox Films, Sony and Universal, according to Swedish media reports.

Napster, Pirate Bay … I miss the old days….

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