Pirate Bay is a Swedish based company, it is the largest torrent website in the world. You can download music, movies, games, and much more. Pirate Bay is under scrutiny for illegal piracy. According to an article on torrentfreak.com, the co-founder of Pirate Bay is sentenced to serve time in jail. The Stockholm District Court found three people guilty of contributory copyright infringement offenses. Two of the men received one-year jail time and a fine of 1.1 million. One of the defendants did not appear in court the day of sentences, they tried to contact him without success, the Judged ruled and handed down the verdict to him as well, do all three men had to pay millions of dollars in damages and jail time. The men are taking the case to the Supreme Court; they are convinced that the final decision will be in there favor.
If the courts continue to monitor and convict people who commit piracy, preferably go after the websites that allow illegal sharing, I believe it will eliminate the crime eventually. Piracy does not just damage the profits that the artist receives, but it takes money from all the team that worked on the project, producers, writers, musicians etc. In reality, with technology today, you may stop it now but someone will come up with something new and creative to continue pirating others work.
LimeWire is hit with another lawsuit, according to an article that Jaikumar Vijayan wrote. He said, “ Eight music publishers have sued LimeWire LLC of massive copyright infringement.” RIAA is requesting that LimeWire be shut down. The companies that are filing the lawsuit are members of the National Music publishers association (NMPA), EMI music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing Universal Music Publishing Group and Warner/ Chappell Music Inc. According to the article, Copyright status provide for statutory damages up to $150,000 per violation.
Like I previously stated, if they crack down on the websites that allows illegal sharing, it would be difficult for other to pirate music, and movies. Copyright infringement is a very serious offense and shutting down these sites it just might bring some money back into the industry.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9178209/Music_industry_hits_LimeWire_with_yet_another_lawsuit
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