Protests follow Pirate Bay verdic
Hundreds of protesters demonstrated on Saturday in Sweden against a court verdict that found guilty the operators of bit-torrent site The Pirate Bay.
The Pirate Bay allows internet users to find and exchange files such as films and music. Its operators; Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom, were given a one-year jail sentence on Friday and ordered to pay damages of 20 million Swedish krona (£2.4m) on Friday for helping to make copyrighted content available on the web.
While the four vowed to appeal the court's verdict, their supporters gathered in central Stockholm to protest against the charges. According to reports, the protesters were organised by The Pirate Party, a political party that believes file sharing and p2p networking should be encouraged rather than criminalised.
