A judgment that imposes a fine of about 700,000 yen per user for every day unless all the copyright infringement files are erased go down to a site having about 22 million users

We have a large amount of torrent files for BitTorrent, make it searchable, and there are about 22 million users worldwideThe Pirate Bay"The judgment of terrible content was given to me.

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According to the court's ruling issued by Amsterdam's court, the Pirate Bay copyrighted torrent file within 3 months (not just the file infringing the copyright itself but only the file location file, It has decided that it should delete all entities) and that the users in the Netherlands must restrict access to prevent downloading torrent files infringing copyright.

If ignoring this ruling, the three operators of The Pirate Bay have to pay a fine of 5000 euros (about 680,000 yen) every day for each user, the maximum amount of which is 30 million euros (about 4.1 billion euros It will reach 15 million yen). Winny's work on October 8, 2009Osaka High Court rulingSo, "We do not recommend users to use for copyright infringement, Hu help is not established", "If you admit like the first instance, as long as there is software, you will be asked to criminal liability indefinitely So it must be prudent from the standpoint of criminal law principle ", it was mentioned that it is impossible to keep questioning indefinitely and it was conclusive judgment, but in the Netherlands it was almost It seems that they began asking the limitless responsibilities.

About this matter, it seems that three people, Frederik Neij, Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholmmen who are the founders of The Pirate Bay, are considering whether to appeal.

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Apart from this, another case already has been sentenced by the Swedish court to be found guilty on 17th April this year, and it was sentenced to 1 year in prison, about 30 million Swedish krona (about 400 million yen We are appealing the case that we are ordered to pay), so the possibility of appealing this time is also very high.

In the previous ruling, "In good movies, heros always suffer a defeat, but in the end they win a big victory. That's the only thing Hollywood taught usTry saying, orIt declares that publicly disregarding copyright and intentionally aiding illegal copyingIt is also known for quite radical behavior, and a series of trials are summarized in detail on overseas Wikipedia.

The Pirate Bay trial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Unlike Japan's Winny trial, it seems that it was judged to be quite malignant, because it explicitly stated copyright infringement.