ThePirateBay will be banned in the UK

The UK Supreme Court ordered the country's Internet providers to block access to the famous Swedish torrent tracker Pirate Bay, which contains links to over 1 million files with movies, music and computer games. As the representatives of the British Recording Industry Association reported today, the verdict should be executed in the coming weeks.

BASI, which includes hundreds of record companies, including Warner Music Group, EMI, Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, welcomed this court decision. "Sites such as Pirate Bay eliminate jobs in our country and prevent the emergence of new talent in British music," - said one of the representatives of the association.
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Through Pirate Bay, which is visited by tens of millions of Internet users around the world, you can find the latest film distribution news and popular music hits. The main problem for lawyers and prosecutors who have tried to close the site before is that the site server itself does not have the files themselves protected by copyright law. Movies and music are shared between users, which formally is not against the law.

In 2009, a hearing on the case of Internet piracy and violation of the law on copyright protection began in the Stockholm District Court. On the dock were four founders of the Pirate Bay website created in 2003. The judge found them guilty and sentenced him to one year’s imprisonment with a fine of $ 3.5 million. Lawyers for the defendants challenged the court decision. In 2010, the appellate court softened the sentence regarding the term of imprisonment, but at the same time increased the amount of fines.

via tasstelecom

And also a report from Euronews . On the video link.