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The police seizures of servers, the enormous bill for damages and the jail sentence on Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde is a defiance of the social and cultural institution of file-sharing in Sweden and on the Internet.

Horacio Potel and The Pirate Bay 2009

Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (top), Frederik Neij (left), Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (centre) and millionaire donor Carl Lundström must pay SEK 30 million ($3.59 million) in damages.

Sweden loses The Pirate Bay case 2009

Carl Lundström, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde were sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay $3.6 million in damages to several entertainment companies for infringing on 33 specific movie and music properties.

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The verdict, jail time for Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Carl Lundström, together with a $3.59 million financial hit for alleged copyright infringements, was fair, opined Paul McCartney.

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“The filing also requests that the fines apply even before the District Court rules on the request and that Neij, Svartholm Warg, and Sunde be barred from speaking out on the matter until the case has had a final verdict in the Swedish court system.”

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The site was established in 2003 by Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij, and has been surrounded in controversy ever since.

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While The Student Bay carries a logo almost identical to that of The Pirate Bay and contact information available when the site was launched directed readers to The Pirate Bay, Svartholm-Warg told The Local at the time that he had no knowledge of the site.

TPB’s Warg in ‘The Student Bay’ probe 2009

Since the fine is to be paid by the four men together, and the other three men convicted in the case — Sunde, Fredrik Neij, and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg — lack assets of any sizeable value, Lundström will end up footing the entire bill.

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Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking sumptuary law (per the 18th amendment) and were sentenced to a year in jail.

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The court found that the four men — Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde, plus Carl Lundstrom — had aided copyright infringement via The Pirate Bay, which provides links to thousands of songs, films, video games and other material, and helps users download them.

Sweden loses The Pirate Bay case 2009