I feel it may be of assistance to explain it: in 2001, Bram Cohen developed a computer protocol to allow users to share large files over the internet. According to TorrentFreak, this was a result of the prosecution not understanding, and thus not being able to explain clearly to the court, the function of file sharing technology. All infringement relating to reproduction of copyright material has been dropped. On the second day of trial, the prosecutors were forced to drop the charges of ‘assisting copyright infringement’, pressing instead the lesser charges of ‘assisting making available copyright material’. In 2006 PB was raided by the police and, on 31 January 2008, allegedly spurred on by international media associations, was charged with being, in effect, an accessory to copyright infringement. It receives countless angry emails from copyright owners and their representatives, threatening legal action if it does not remove offending torrents. The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker, has been under legal scrutiny for several years. The prosecutor Håkan Roswall claims that, by creating and maintaining the site (or providing the financial backing to do so), the four men have provided others the opportunity infringe copyright. The first three men are the creators of the site and Mr Lundstroem is a wealthy businessman whose investment allowed the creators to buy equipment and bandwidth. The Pirate Bay’s human counterparts Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstroem are accused of facilitating illegal downloading of copyright works. "This past Monday marked the beginning of the trial for file-sharing site The Pirate Bay in the Stockholm district court.
The IPKat's friend, ace reporter Tara Train reports: Does The Pirate Bay's technique for delivering copyright-protected works to file-sharers who download its files (see here for a good and fairly comprehensible explanation) constitute an ingenious means of bypassing traditional copyright law through the employment of BitTorrent streaming, or is it an egregious and flagrant infringement of rights in the works so delivered? A Swedish Court is currently considering this question.
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