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Pirate Bay Guilty Verdict – So What’s Next for the Music Industry?

Posted on 17. Apr, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

It’s official. A Swedish court has found four men behind the BitTorrent tracker the Pirate Bay guilty of assisting in making copyrighted material available and sentenced each of them to a year in jail. They were also ordered to pay damages of 30 million kronor ($3.54 million) to the film and music industries by Stockholm district court. Plaintiffs included Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Bros., EMI Music and Columbia Pictures.

The Swedish and international music industry has welcomed today’s (April 17) verdict against Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde. The Pirate Bay is the most notorious site used for searching P2P downloads of music and films, claiming 22 million users in February.

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