An appeals court in Sweden on Friday upheld the copyright convictions of three men behind Pirate Bay, a popular file-sharing site that remains in operation despite attempts to shut it down.
The Svea Appeals Court agreed with a lower court ruling that found the three men, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstrom, guilty of helping users of the site to break Sweden’s copyright law. Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/technology/27pirate.html?nl=afternoonupdate&emc=aua22