August 25th, 2009
The file-sharing website The Pirate Bay is now offline following a ruling by a Swedish court that ordered its largest internet service provider, Black Internet, to cut their service to the filesharing site. The court threatened Black Internet with a 500,000 kronor (£43,188) fine for failure to comply to withdraw services until the ongoing case between Pirate Bay and the entertainment industry is over. Read more here
August 20th, 2009
Israelis have reacted furiously to an allegation in a Swedish newspaper that its soldiers have killed Palestinians in order to harvest their organs. Aftonbladet, Sweden’s largest-circulation daily newspaper, carried the headline: “Our sons are plundered for their organs”. Government officials and commentators in Israel described the report as anti-Semitic and libellous. Read more here
June 8th, 2009
The pro-internet file sharing Pirate Party yesterday scored a big win by securing a seat in the European parliament pulling in 7.1 per cent of votes in Sweden, gaining one MEP. Read more
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April 17th, 2009
Four men behind Swedish file-sharing site
Pirate Bay have been found guilty of copyright infringement and sentenced to one year in jail. Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde, were also ordered to pay 30m kronor (£2.4m) in damages.
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