Pirate Bay founders sent to jail

[Drofder2004]

Thats the thing about torrents though. Where you download them has little to no affect on the speed of download.
Anyone with common sense distributing their stuff through torrents will use a piratebay tracker along with their own personal/private trackers.
I can get anywhere from a shitty 100kb/s to a max 1mb from downloads. It all depends on who is seeding and how many are leeching.

[JDogg]

There is no better site.
There may be a site with more dedicated subjects, but you do not get a "biggest in the world" sticker if it isn't true.

I don't think it's the best, but it is the biggest.

All they need to do is grab the hard drives, and go to another country.

Sadly, they have yet to grow log enough arms to reach out of a jail cell to do so.

I'm sure they have friends.

[JDogg]

Here's the official verdict http://digg.com/d1owyU. 1 year in jail with 905k in damages.

[Drofder2004]

Btw, its 1 year and 905k EACH.
It totals over 3Mil.

Appeal will probably fail, but TPB will live on anyway,

[[SoE]_Zaitsev]

Still, 1 year is a lot.

[Infinite]

Still, 1 year is a lot.

in Sweden, that's 3 months with 6 months probation apparently .

[[SoE]_Zaitsev]

Probably the same here. Prison is luxury overhere.

[Infinite]

Probably the same here. Prison is luxury overhere.

prison turns straight men into homosexuals in America.

[[SoE]_Zaitsev]

And that

[JDogg]

Btw, its 1 year and 905k EACH.
It totals over 3Mil.

Appeal will probably fail, but TPB will live on anyway,

I wonder if this will change anything. Before this bit torrent trackers and pirates were, for the most part invincible, except for the single mothers the RIAA sued for downloading a few songs of course. Do you guys think people would stop and think before downloading from TPB?.

[Drofder2004]

Yes and No.
Some people are pussying out a bit and a few others are thinking "fuck them" and setting their computers to download double

[JDogg]

Yes and No.
Some people are pussying out a bit and a few others are thinking "fuck them" and setting their computers to download double

Yeah I see what you mean, maybe the hardcore users would be thinking "fuck them" but I think new users might shy away,they read the article somewhere and see the amount of money they have to pay and shit themselves a little.

[Coontang]

They do not HOST the illegal material, all material is hosted on individual user computers. the torrent file simply tells the software who to connect to and what to download.

So, by law, they are hosting nothing illegal. If I made a text file of where you can illegally download software online, then that would not be illegal to host that text file, as the file itself contains no copyrighted material, it only directs you.

I see where you're generally coming from here, I understand it too. TPB can't be prosecuted for hosting illegal downloads, and there is a lot of legit stuff on there too so what are they going to be charged for?

[Drofder2004]

Providing / assisting people in breaching copyright law.

Not in Sweden.