Pirate Bay founders sent to jail
Found on BBC News on Thursday, 16 April 2009
Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail.
Speaking to the BBC, the chairman of industry body the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) John Kennedy said the verdict sent out a clear message.
"There has been a perception that piracy is OK and that the music industry should just have to accept it. This verdict will change that," he said.
"There is a lot of anger in Sweden right now. File-sharing is an institution here and while I can't encourage people to break copyright law, I'm not following it and I don't agree with it."
In other news: nothing will change. Kennedy can't really believe this will stop filesharing; their business models are outdated and they refuse to deal with that. The clear message is that they are butt-hurt. Slavery was legal once too and farmers said they cannot exist without slaves. Guess what? They could change. Many artists have discovered that filesharing actually helps them a lot. Next targets on the to-sue list are Google for being a search engine providing links to torrent files and blogs for bad reviews and spoilers.