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Pirate Bay swashbucklers convicted in Swedish court

The music industry cheered as a Swedish court on Friday, 17 April 2009, found the four proprietors of The Pirate Bay guilty of copyright law violation.

20 Apr 2009

Pirate Bay swashbucklers convicted in Swedish court

The Pirate Bay is a torrent tracker site in Sweden that helps users find and download files used to swap movies, music, TV shows, games, books and software via BitTorrent file-sharing applications. It was accessed by more than 20 million people worldwide last year.

The defendants have vowed to appeal.

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