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Pirate Bay Founder Fined For ‘Continued Involvement’ In The Site
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Over the years the laundry list of punishments and measures against The Pirate Bay and its founders has grown to epic proportions. The founders of the site were hit with jail sentences and huge fines following a 2009 trial and subsequent appeals, and the site itself is banned or censored...
Flattr Finally Lands Big Dailymotion Deal, But Its Business Model Still Sucks
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Flattr, a social micro-payments platform which we’ve likened to a “Like button with cash” is to partner with the second biggest video site on the Web, Dailymotion. The distribution deal is targeted at Dailymotion’s key content creators in its Motionmakers category. A cynic might call this a mere test of...
Pirate Bay Founder Takes Case To European Court
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On February 1st, Sweden’s Supreme Court announced its decision not to grant leave to appeal in the long-running criminal case against the founders of The Pirate Bay. This meant that the previously determined jail sentences and fines handed out to Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström would...
Social micro-payments startup Flattr strikes deal with online video giant Dailymotion
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Flattr, an innovative social micro-payments service cooked up by Bittorrent search engine The Pirate Bay co-founder and former spokesperson Peter Sunde, has seen moderate success to date. What it lacks most is deals with major content owners and publishers that can help spread the Flattr buttons across the Web. Today,...
Music Labels Have No Plans To Share Any Money They Get From The Pirate Bay With Artists
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We see this every single time the music labels (usually RIAA or IFPI) "win" a big case against an alleged "pirate" site. They're awarded a bunch of money... and none of it goes to the artists. We've heard about it happening with Limewire and YouTube (though that was payoff to...
Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde on the Copyright Mafia
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As many of you know, I used to be the spokesperson for The Pirate Bay. I left the site a few years ago to continue working on Flattr and other projects, but I’m just as interested in the questions regarding copyright, Internet and censorship as I’ve ever been. I keep...
Dailymotion adds Flattr’s crowdfunding functionality to original videos
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Creators wishing to distribute their video content online for consumption by the masses have plenty of services to choose from, but the same isn’t always true for getting compensated for the work. Fortunately, web video site Dailymotion thinks its found a winning solution through a new partnership announced today...
Pirate Bay Founders To Spend Sentences In Three Separate Jails
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Yesterday it was revealed that Carl Lundström, the millionaire businessman who provided structural support for a fledgling Pirate Bay through his company Rix Telecom/Port80, will be spending his 4 month ‘jail’ sentence in the community. Along with Pirate Bay founders Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm, Lundström had previously...
Pirate Bay Founders File Appeals With Human Rights Court
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Over the years there have been dozens of announcements coming out of The Pirate Bay, often foretelling the arrival of some crazy scheme or thought-provoking plan to move the site and sharing culture forward. While many haven’t come to fruition due to outside influences such as wild parties, one thing...
Flattr: we’re victims of an ‘app dictatorship’
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The founders of micro-payment service Flattr say they — and the people that use their service — are victims of monopolistic behavior, after an app which used their system was blocked by Apple. Flattr’s Peter Sunde and Linus OlssonThe company went public on Monday with the news that a third-party...
Millionaire who assisted The Pirate Bay to be electronically tagged
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Millionaire heir of the Swedish Wasabröd company, Carl Lundström will not being going to jail for his part in The Pirate Bay case but will instead be electronically tagged while he stays in a flat in Sweden. According to the latest update on Torrent Freak, under Swedish law, those set to serve...
Music industry again hoards Pirate Bay booty, starves artists
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Wait, people didn’t really expect the music industry to share copyright infringement winnings with the people who actually make music, did they? TorrentFreak reported over the weekend that a leaked report from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) stated explicitly that any compensation won by recording companies as...
Is The Peter Sunde Petition Offensive, Inflammatory or Objectionable?
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For users of phpBB-powered forums during the last decade, member polls were an everyday occurrence. Any user could start a poll, and as a result many useful discussions were enjoyed. Some users would also start trivial and frivolous polls, such as a multiple choice polls with only one outcome. Forum...
The Pirate Bay co-founders file appeal with EU court
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The Pirate Bay’s co-founders Peter “brokep” Sunde and Fredrik “TiAMO” Neij filed an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights Wednesday to get the Swedish court verdict against them overturned. “Essentially we’re arguing that Sweden is disregarding our human rights since they haven’t agreed to EU legislation in our court...
Peter Sunde, The Pirate Bay Spokesperson, Details Why His Conviction Was A Farce
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Last week, I noticed that former Pirate Bay spokesperson Peter Sunde had posted the letter that he sent to the Swedish Administration as part of his plea to be pardoned. It was written in Swedish, and I wasn't comfortable that the Google translation was accurate enough. Thankfully, however, Rick Falkvinge...
Is A Petition Calling For A Pardon Of The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde 'Offensive'?
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This is a little strange. We recently wrote about Peter Sunde's request for a pardon in which he lays out a fairly compelling argument for how the Swedish judicial system was railroaded into convicting him. Soon after that, a petition appeared on the site Avaaz in support of Sunde's request,...
Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Requests Pardon
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After a drawn-out process beginning with the police raids on The Pirate Bay in 2006, a trial and guilty verdicts in 2009, and subsequent appeals since, the time has now arrived for the founders of the site to serve their sentences. For one, businessman Carl Lundström, the road ahead is...
Music Labels Won't Share Pirate Bay Loot With Artists
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February this year, Sweden’s Supreme Court announced its decision not to grant leave to appeal in the long-running criminal case against the founders of The Pirate Bay. This meant that the previously determined sentences handed out to Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström will stand. Part of...
Pirate Bay Founder Submits Emotional Plea for Pardon
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After his sentence was made final earlier this year, Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde was due to go prison early May. However, due to various delays, he has yet to be committed to confinement. This week in a final attempt to maintain his freedom, Sunde asked for a pardon. According...
Clemency petition for The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde passes 20k signatures
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Peter Sunde the co-founder of the world’s most famous file sharing site, The Pirate Bay, has applied for clemency to avoid going to jail after being convicted of copyright infringement back in 2009. More than 20,000 people have signed an online petition to support him. Sunde and his colleagues face...
Sold out: What you’ll be missing if you didn’t buy tickets for London Web Summit in time
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The inaugural London Web Summit has already sold out (capped at 1,000 attendees). Don’t panic if you didn’t get your tickets in time; you’ll only be missing one of the best technology events of the year, no biggie. Seriously though, we’ll be there so we’ll keep you posted. Wanna know...
PIRATES OF THE INTERNET: These Are The Hackers And File-Sharers Who Revolutionized The Web
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The Internet has been like a mix of the high seas and the Wild West — a mostly lawless arena with authorities struggling to contain the, let's call them, "creative" element. Between SOPA, PIPA, and the rash of file-sharing websites going dark lately, it looks like this freewheeling era...
The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde Questions Why We Let Dying Industries Dictate Terms Of Democracy
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Peter Sunde, a very thoughtful and insightful guy, who's been completely demonized by the entertainment industry for his role with The Pirate Bay, has written up an interesting piece for Wired UK where he not only goes over highly questionable issues related to his conviction, but raises a larger question...
The Pirate Bay co-founder asks for clemency
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The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde submitted his plea for clemency this week, asking the Swedish government to release him from his prison sentence. Sunde, together with three co-defendants, was convicted of criminal copyright infringement in 2009 and sentenced to one year in prison as well as a hefty fine....
Pirates Bay founders’ Supreme Court appeal rejected, sentence finalized
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On Wednesday, Sweden’s Supreme Court announced that it decided not to grant an appeal in the long-running Pirate Bay trial. After a nine-day trial in April 2009, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström were found guilty of assistance to copyright infringement and sentenced to one year...
The Mega-Money World Of MegaUpload
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The file-sharing and anti-piracy world is full of interesting characters, most of whom remain hidden in the shadows. Some individuals are just too large to be contained though, and are either involuntarily thrust into the media spotlight by force or become deliberately high-profile by design. While many people will be...
Life after PirateBay, bt Brian O'Leary (@brianoleary) http://bit.ly/a7HZj8 Founder Peter Sunde offers some thoughts at SxSWi
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Life after PirateBay, bt Brian O'Leary (@brianoleary) http://bit.ly/a7HZj8 Founder Peter Sunde offers some thoughts at SxSWi
The Pirate Bay’s founders face jail after they’re denied a Supreme Court appeal
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The founders of controversial BitTorrent search site The Pirate Bay have been denied a Supreme Court appeal in Sweden, meaning that the prison sentences and fines they were handed in November 2010 will stand – but it seems there’s still a chance they may avoid jail. As TorrentFreak and The...
Swedish Supreme Court rejects Pirate Bay founders final appeal
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It’s certainly not a good day to be a founder of The Pirate Bay. The legal saga centering on the founders of the file sharing site Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström has been ongoing for several years. So far, the founders of been appealing the court decisions further...
Pirate Bay founders denied final appeal, sentenced to jail
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The years-long legal battle between the founders of file-sharing site Pirate Bay and copyrights holders in a Swedish Supreme Court has come to an end on Wednesday. The appeal of Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundström was denied by the judge, and the three were sentenced to various lengths...
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