European court of justice rules Pirate Bay is infringing copyright
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#2T1DP)
The ruling comes after seven-year legal battle and could lead to ISPs and governments blocking access to other torrent sites across Europe
The European court of justice (ECJ) has ruled that BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay is directly infringing copyright, in a move that could lead to ISPs and governments blocking access to other torrent sites across Europe.
The ruling comes after a seven-year legal battle, which has seen the site, founded in Sweden in 2003, blocked and seized, its offices raided, and its three founders fined and jailed.
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