The Pirate Bay to be Charged by Swedish Prosecutors
Date : 2008 01 28 Category : Web News
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Case partly based on evidence collected in the 2006 server raid.
This Thursday, the 31st of January, Swedish public prosecutor Hakan Roswall plans to charge The Pirate Bay with being an accessory and conspiracy to break that country's copyright law, which could lead to fines or up to two years in prison.
The real dilemma for Swedish prosecutors has always been how to stop the world's largest BitTorrent tracker site, for as the people behind The Pirate Bay have repeatedly pointed out, they don't actually host any copyrighted content, but merely the torrent tracker files which visitors use to share content with one another.