Pirate Bay Found Guilty – Fined and Goin Dahrn!

The Pirate Bay trial verdict is in: the (in)famous torrent site administrators have been found guilty of flouting copyright law and been slapped with hefty punishment.

The Swedish court has found Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij, and Carl Lundström, the men behind the Pirate Bay, guilty of breaking copyright law.

The four must each serve a year in jail and pay a fine of $3.6m (£2.4m).

So, how will that affect us – the everyday internet user?

Well, it seems that The Pirate Bay website will remain, so this isn’t the end by any means.

The defendants will almost certainly appeal the case so this story will continue to run and you can expect more courtroom Twitter updates and ‘experts’ being confused about the internet.

This continues to be one of the most important internet court cases in history.

A Pirate Bay press conference is scheduled for midday, so expect more news then.

And here is the news!

Peter Sunde, one of the site’s founders, has proved that a pirate never says die by stating “we can’ t pay and we wouldn’t pay.”

Sunde held an online press conference on behalf of the Pirate Bay following the verdict today, in which he called the guilty verdict “bizarre”.

“We can’t pay and we wouldn’t pay. Even if I had the money I would rather burn everything I owned, and I wouldn’t even give them the ashes,” the Pirate Bay admin said.

“It’s serious to actually be found guilty and get jail time. It’s really serious. And that’s a bit weird.”

Are you for or against the guilty verdict?