Pirate Bay founders sent to jail

Found on BBC News on Thursday, 16 April 2009
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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 Kennedy can't really believe this will stop filesharing; their business models are outdated and they refuse to deal with that.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.