Court affirms jail time for Pirate Bay founders

“In two years, this type of piracy will be over. After a ruling like this and all the pioneers start to get older and have children and families, piracy won’t occur to this extent.”<p>The only way I can see this type of piracy being over in two years is if the media industries up and die so there's nothing left to steal.<p>I wonder how much this case actually cost the media industries to litigate. The actual fines involved are relatively small, so it would be interesting to know whether the record companies will be able to use the fines to cover their legal fees.

30 million kronor is around 4.2 mil USD. I'm guessing that's not going to happen.<p>I lost track of the story shortly after they were found guilty. Did they get scooped up by the police or are they in refuge somewhere?<p>I applaud these gents for standing so tall against their attackers, even against the threat of a judgment like this.<p>It's just a shame that the music industry is still wasting time on issues like these. Thank god I wasn't arrested for sharing cassette tapes in my early teens.

And the RIAA lands another awesome strike of the sword into the ocean.<p>The more they fight piracy in this way, the further they push file trading into completely untrackable recesses of the internet.<p>It's actually a good thing in the long run, I suppose. Between this and the Homeland DNS grab, soon we'll have an alternative internet where everything is encrypted, routed through ZKS systems, untrackable, and completely outside of government control.

As a citizen of neighbouring Denmark, I find this a truly grim day. How can something like copyright infringement result in a prison term ?<p>And don't even get me started with the whole "A torrent tracker is copyright infringement" argument. Jeez!

Murdering bits (deleting them) will get you nothing, but copying bits (creating more of them) will get you a jail sentence. And in this case it's allowing access to bits that allow <i>other people</i> to copy bits,<p>It's a bizarre world, and I think stuff like this is a direct consequence of subscribing to legal fictions.

Between rulings like this and the pressure that these companies are exerting on small websites, it would be impossible for a Youtube to emerge today. What's more, this has a sort of chilling effect, with more and more companies shying away from potentially dangerous ideas and moving to safe, consumer internet applications like a million twitter clients that bore you to death. I fear for the future of the internet as I know it.

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