How To Download Movies With Utorrent And Pirat Bay

Here is a brusk history of The Pirate Bay and its founders:

2003

The Pirate Bureau sets up a bittorrent-tracker, later named The Pirate Bay. It grows to become one of the largest file sharing sites on the net.

2006

Motion Moving-picture show Association of America contacts the Swedish Ministry of Justice, asking them to have action confronting The Pirate Bay. This is a very sensitive effect in Sweden, where ministers are strictly forbidden to directly intervene in how government agencies, such every bit the law, handle specific cases. The legal term is "ministerial rule".

Constabulary raid the data middle where The Pirate Bay is hosted. The servers are taken offline and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Fredrik Neij are taken in for questioning. Three days later, The Pirate Bay is back online.

Minister for Justice Thomas Bodström is accused of ministerial rule post-obit the raid, but the allegations are dismissed.

2008

Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström are charged with copyright offenses.

The policeman responsible for the investigation into the Pirate Bay accepts a new chore with Warner Brothers, one of the claimants in the case.

2009

A district court sentences Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström to 1 yr in prison house and a total of 31 million Swedish kronor in amercement. The defendants appeal the verdict.

Tomas Norström, the presiding judge in the district courtroom, is accused of bias after it emerges that he is affiliated with a Swedish pro-copyright organisation. Other members of the same grouping are employed by the film and music industries.

2010

The Royal Court gives its verdict in the Pirate Bay case. The 4 defendants run across their prison terms shortened somewhat, but the damages increased to a full of more than than $7 million. The defendants again appeal the verdict.

2012

The High Court declines to take upward the case on appeal.

Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is arrested in Cambodia and transported back to Sweden. He is now serving his sentence in the Pirate Bay case while a prosecutor investigates a carve up hacking and fraud case.

With interest, Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström now owe roughly $xi million.

[Read: Interview with Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay]

The Pirate Bay founders

Peter Sunde, alias Brokep

Sentenced to eight months in jail, yet to exist served.
Former spokesperson for The Pirate Bay
Divides his fourth dimension among Malmö, Berlin, and Gdansk
Founded the online payments startup Flattr
Claims no ongoing affiliation with The Pirate Bay

Fredrik Neij, allonym Tiamo

Sentenced to 10 months in jail, yet to be served
Currently residing in Laos
Declared himself bankrupt in 2012
Nonetheless the registered owner of the Pirate Bay domain name

Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, alias Anakata

Did not show up for the Regal Court hearing
Sentenced to one yr in prison house, now being served
Arrested in Phnom Penh, Cambodia during fall 2012 and transported back to Sweden. Now nether investigation in a carve up hacking and fraud instance.

Carl Lundström

Multi-millionaire residing in Switzerland
Charged with being the main financier behind The Pirate Bay
Sentenced to four months in prison house. Served his jail time at habitation, with an electronic tag
Declared himself bankrupt in 2012
In the past, has been tied to right-wing-extremist groups

Daniel Goldberg (@danielg0ldberg) and Linus Larsson (@linuslarsson) are freelance writers based in Stockholm, Sweden. Their beginning English language-linguistic communication volume, about Minecraft-creator Markus "Notch" Persson, will be published this fall by Seven Stories Printing.