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Summary: Everyone received 1 year in prison. They plan to appeal, which means the final verdict could take years. The website and tracker are staying up.
by Mazy 17y ago
Summary: Everyone received 1 year in prison. They plan to appeal, which means the final verdict could take years. The website and tracker are staying up.
- chris11 17y agoI am surprised that the site and tracker is still staying up. I was under the impression that the prosecution was also going after the site.
- davidw 17y agoYeah, my bet was more on fines and forcing them to shut down the site rather than jail time.
- froo 17y agoI think this what is called being a "scape goat" - perhaps under political pressure, the courts are deciding to make an example out of them. If jail time became the norm for running torrent sites/trackers, those who have the know how to put these things online will be more deterred than if the penalty were only financial loss.
- iujnhytgh 17y agoSo the record companies are paying off more politicians than the telcos! How things have changed.
- trickjarrett 17y agoThe admins are savvy enough, and they've previously relocated the servers to other countries before, so I have no doubt the site will continue.
- Celcius 17y agoNot only that but they are only four people of a much larger swarm maintaining the pirate bay. Even if they go to jail it wouldn't mean anything to the site being up or not.
- electromagnetic 17y agoI believe they said after their servers were raided that they don't even know what country some of the new servers are located.