Criminal cases against the founders of the Pirate Bay withdrawn(#pirate bay)

Criminal cases against the founders of the Pirate Bay withdrawn(#pirate bay)

by Malik korrich ~ mardi 14 juillet 2015

The criminal cases against the Pirate Bay co-founders in a Belgian court has been cleared and the verdict was given in favour of the four pirate bay founders Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom.

These four co-founders of the most famous torrent file sharing website in the world were charged with criminal cases of copyright infringement and abuse of electronic communications and the case was under trial in Mechelse in Belgium.

The Pirate Bay is the most popular website in the world when it comes to peer to peer file sharing using torrents. The website was sold by these 4 co-founders in 2006 to Reservella which is a company based in Seychelles. The verdict came as a relief for these four individuals who have been charged with several criminal cases in the years between 2011 and 2013.

The court decided that since the website was sold by the four defendants in 2006, any activity of copyright infringement that occurred after 2006 cannot be attributed to these four co-founders. The Pirate Bay was founded in 2003 and was sold to its current owner in 2006. The site has a reputation of notoriously resurfacing after it is blocked. The website claimed in 2014 that they have the site hosted on 21 different virtual machines and if one server is blocked, it is just a matter of few hours after which the site is moved to the new server and becomes functional again.

The website though has been blocked, always restarts or provides services under several different URLs. It has therefore been a hard task to block the contents of the website since the servers on which the website is hosted keeps changing. Since the verdict of the court, the four co-founders can now breathe a little easy.