The trial against the four men behind Pirate Bay started at the 16th of February 2009. The four men are accused of being accessories of breaking copyright law. If the judge says that they are guilty they will have to go to prison for 2 years and they will have to pay a fine of 143,500 dollars.
The designers of the site are confident that the site will still exist without them, because the court already tried to take it down once, but they failed. The four men are convinced that the court will fail again.
The creators say that the site only acts as a search engine and that the site doesn’t contain any infringing content. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, who represents 1400 record companies worldwide, disagrees with this statement of the Pirate Bay creators. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry says that authors, musicmakers, moviemakers and other people lost a lot of money because of Pirate Bay.
The evidence in this case will show that Pirate Bay is a commercial business, which made a lot of money for its creators, no matter what the creators of Pirate Bay say.
The entertaining industry demands 14 million dollars from Pirate Bay for lost sales income. The creators of Pirate Bay will refuse to pay, because they don’t have a lot of money. They don’t earn money from Pirate Bay.
I think it’s good that the government tries to remove sites like Pirate Bay, because a lot of people are losing a lot of money, because everybody is downloading illegally from the Internet. My opinion is that downloading illegal content from the Internet is the same as stealing something from a shop. It’s not difficult to download illegally and the chance that you will be punished isn’t very high. That’s why the government must act and remove sites like Pirate Bay from the Internet.
Jonas Hillemans 2RP2
Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/16/pirate_bay_copyright_infringement_trial/
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