The founders of popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay have been sentenced to jail by a Swedish court in a high-profile copyright infringement case.
The founders of the site, which host Bit Torrent links but no media files itself, were ordered to serve a year in jail and to pay a fine for compensation and damages totaling $3.6 million.
A message on the popular site posted a message after the verdict stating that the losing party’Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundstroem’would appeal the decision.
Plaintiffs in the case included BMG, EMI, Sony BMG, Universal, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Universal, and Warner Bros.
