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File-Sharer Receives Longest Prison Sentence Yet: 5 Years

File-Sharer Receives Longest Prison Sentence Yet: 5 Years

The legal system has been hitting file sharers hard lately — harder than ever. Kywan Fisher got bilked $1.5 million for sharing 10 movies on a file-sharing site; Jammie Thomas,…

Pirate Bay Founder Locked Up for at Least Two Weeks without Charges

Pirate Bay Founder Locked Up for at Least Two Weeks without Charges

Things look a little different in Sweden then, say, the United States. Following being deported from Cambodia to Sweden, without so much as an explanation why, Gottfrid Svartholm, cofounder of…

Megaupload Founder was not Only Brutalized at his Arrest, But Arrested Illegally

Megaupload Founder was not Only Brutalized at his Arrest, But Arrested Illegally

Kim Dotcom, who founded Megaupload, a file storage site that is being prosecuted on piracy charges for copyright infringement, has cited the deplorable overkill authorities used in his arrest, when…