Pirate Bay co-founder claims 'we lost'
PrintBrokeP distributes unreleased Pirate verdict
Posted in Law, 17th April 2009 08:48 GMT
Free whitepaper – Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade server
The Pirate Bay has lost the trial against the entertainment industry according to co-founder Peter Sunde, who cites a “trustworthy source”.
Sunde, also known as BrokeP, said he was given “leaked information” last night.
The verdict is expected within the next hour, however, so we'll soon see just how "trustworthy" his source is. Sunde used his Twitter account to break the news.
“Stay calm – nothing will happen to TPB, us personally or file sharing what so ever. This is just a theatre for the media,” he claimed.
If found guilty of being accessories to copyright infringement, Sunde and three other men behind the notorious BitTorrent site could face up to a year in prison each and hefty fines to boot.
"Really, it's a bit LOL. It used to be only movies, now even verdicts are out before the official release," said Sunde on Twitter.
We’ll have more for you once the official verdict hits. ®
Analyst Keynote: The Register Agile Data Center Summit
Managing desktop software for fun and profit
Analyst Keynote: The Register Agile Data Center Summit
Enabling the Agile Data Center
Google Spanner — instamatic redundancy for 10 million servers?
Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala
Fedora 12 polishes Linux for netbooks
Sign up, sign up for The Register IT security newsletter