clipped from: www.independent.co.uk The four men on trial are the brains behind the Pirate Bay – the world’s largest file sharing website. They are charged with accessory to breaking copyright law by helping millions of Internet users download protected works. The Pirate Bay doesn't host copyrighted content, but directs users to the material using a popular downloading client called BitTorrent.
Four Swedish internet pirates today faced the wrath of Hollywood’s entertainment industry as the biggest file sharing court case since Napster began in Stockholm, Sweden.
Fredrik Neij, 30, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 24, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, 30, and Carl Lundström, 48, claim they have done nothing wrong but if convicted they could face up to two years in prison and pay damages of 93 million SEK (nearly £8million).
