Pirate Bay Copyright Infringers Made to Walk the Plank!

The Pirate Bay was reputed to be world’s most high profile file-sharing website, using the BitTorrent protocol to enable P2P file sharing of often unauthorised copyright protected materials.

The men were found guilty of criminal copyright infringement even though The Pirate Bay site itself contained no copyright content and merely acted as an indexing site that linked to other sites from which people could watch films and television programmes.

Even though some of those sites may have held copyright material unlawfully, many sites may have been lawfully holding copyright content.

Swedish copyright law is not dissimilar to copyright law in the UK.

Numerous similar websites operating out of various parts of the world have been shut down by the respective national authorities, notably FACT’s prosecution of TV-Links.co.uk in 2007.

Does the Swedish decision mark the end of The Pirate Bay type of site or will more of them simply spring up to fill the void?

Silverman Sherliker has learned that the case has sparked the formation of a new political party in Sweden dedicated to curtailing the copyright regime to allow greater sharing of copyright material on the web… but so far the traditional copyright law is holding its own against the infringers… much to the disappointment of millions of people around the world!

Silverman Sherliker partners Dennis Lee and John Abbott have recently advised one of the UK’s best known sites on these issues.