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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Friday, 01 February 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 He also asserted that "The Pirate Bay has managed to make Sweden, normally the most law abiding of EU countries, look like a piracy haven with intellectual property laws on a par with Russia."Given that the site has a decentralised architecture spread across multiple countries, that claim could prove true. The same blog entry complains that police are selling 4620 pages of documentation about the case for 6050 SEK (approx $US950), suggesting that it would be more sensible to distribute the material in PDF form via a torrent. "[W]e're not suing the police for commercially exploiting the material they took from us without permission," it adds. Roswall seeks damages of 1.2 million SEK (approx $US188,000), based on an estimate of the site's advertising revenue. This advertising revenue is being used by the prosecution to show commercial intent, even though no unauthorised copies of copyright material were found on The Pirate Bay's servers. The companies whose copyrights have been allegedly violated by The Pirate Bay (the list includes major record labels and movie studios) have until the end of the month to lodge claims for damages. If the prosecution is successful, the defendants may face prison sentences in addition to any financial penalties.
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