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Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online One of illegal file-sharing website Pirate Bay’s cofounders has been detained in Cambodia, as local authorities consider a request from Sweden to have him extradited. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was held in Phnom Penh after an international warrant was issued for his arrest in April for failing to show up for the start of his one-year prison sentence for copyright violations. Warg, 27, has been living in Cambodia for four years,...

Peter Suciu for RedOrbit.com At one point the infamous pirate Edward Teach – better known as Blackbeard – probably believed himself to be the most resilient pirate in the world, but he still ended up dead on the deck on his ship, a fate shared by many in his profession. Labeling one’s self a pirate was never historically the best way to ensure a happy ending, so their story could be a warning to the so-called modern day digital pirates as well. The Swedish website The Pirate Bay...

Three of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay’s founders -- Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundstrom -- will not be able to argue their case before the Swedish Supreme Court, meaning their previous jail sentences and fines imposed by a lower court of appeals will remain in effect, reports TorrentFreak. The Supreme Court announced its decision not to grant the appeal in the long-running Pirate Bay criminal trial. Found guilty in April 2009 of criminal copyright infringement offenses,...

According to court documents, a key investor of The Pirate Bay file sharing site appealed to the country's highest court on Monday to overturn his four-month prison sentence and fines to the music and movie industry. "Carl Lundstroem demands the Supreme Court cancel the Appeal Court's ruling," the petition read.Lundstroem and Pirate Bay founders Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg were all sentenced to a year in jail in 2009, while also being ordered to pay $4.5...

A Swedish appeals court upheld the copyright convictions of three men behind The Pirate Bay, which is a popular file-sharing site that remains in operations. The Svea Appeals Court agreed with a lower court ruling that found Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstrom guilty of helping users to break Sweden's copyright law. "The appeals court, like the district court, finds that the service Pirate Bay has facilitated illegal file sharing in a way which is punishable for those who...

On Monday, the Pirate Bay's lawyer said the owners of the Swedish file sharing website will seek a retrial after a Dutch court temporarily banned its activities in the Netherlands. "We will file a summons by August 25 before the district court in Amsterdam," lawyer Ernst Louwers, acting for The Pirate Bay founders Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde, told AFP.He said that the men wanted a new trial so that way they will be able to present their side of the story....

The co-founder of the popular file-sharing website The Pirate Bay says new legal action against the site is nothing more than harassment, BBC News reported.Lawsuits from 13 Hollywood production companies were filed on Tuesday in a further effort to get the website permanently shut down.The founders of Pirate Bay were found guilty of breaking copyright law in April and were sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to pay $4.5 million in damages.But the site, where users can share copyrighted...

The Pirate Bay, a prominent filesharing website, is becoming a legitimate site through a series of give-and-take deals that earn its users money."The more you give, the more you get," stated Hans Pandeya, chief of software company Global Gaming Factory X, who announced in June that they were purchasing the site and would begin sending payments to both providers and copyright holders.The shift in ownership was faced with cynicism from the filesharing population who were worried that...

The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular file sharing sites, will be sold to a Swedish gaming group for 7.8 million dollars, AFP reported.Global Gaming Factory (GGF) announced on Tuesday it plans to begin paying copyright fees once the deal is completed.The company released a statement saying: "The listed software company, Global Gaming Factory (GGF), acquires The Pirate Bay website, one of the 100 most visited websites in the world... The purchase (sum) amounts to 60 million...

A Swedish court of appeals dismissed on Thursday requests for a retrial of four men who ran The Pirate Bay file sharing Web site.On April 17, a Stockholm district court had found the four men guilty of promoting copyright infringement.Pirate Bay allowed users to avert copyright fees and share movies, music and computer game files using bit torrent technology, or peer-to-peer links, provided by the site.  None of the content can be found on The Pirate Bay server itself.Lawyers for the four...