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The Pirate Bay Founders Lose Appeal in Court, Sentenced to Jail

The owners of illegal torrent website The Pirate Bay have been faced with $6.5 million fine following the failure of their court appeal. The three founders of the  The Pirate Bay, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundstrom  got their jail time reduced. Fredrik Neij gets ten months, Peter Sunde eight months, and Carl Lundstrom four months. They using Peer-to-Peer technology where users download the content from other’s computers via  internet.

Founders of The Pirate Bay

The Pirate Bay first started legal war in the year 2006. Pirate Bay service makes possibly illegal filesharing of protected content which was shared without authorization from its  owners.  The company generates a revenue of about $2,00,000 annually through advertisements and has about 23 million users which include nearly 5 million registered users. Due to these issues no effect on the Pirate Bay website which is still running as normal.

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