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Pirate Bay guilty verdict: Now what?

 
Setting sail for the Supreme Court The four men behind BitTorrent tracker website The Pirate Bay were handed stiff sentences of one year each this morning and ordered to stump up $3.6m in damages to the entertainment industry.… Whitepaper - Thinking beyond tape (link)

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