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Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were each sentenced to a year in jail. They were also ordered to pay 30m kronor (£2.4m) in damages. Book club views the case and its implications for consumers and producers of entertainment. It is described as the world's most high profile file-sharing website. It was set up in 2003 by an anti-copyright organisation, Piratbyran, but for the last five years it has been run by individuals. This site is essentially a “forum for people to post music”, movies, computer games and other forms of electronic media so that other people can download them without having to buy their own copies - or to pay the copyright holders for them. The site itself does not actually contain the copyrighted material, but provides links so that it can be found elsewhere!

It's all possible thanks to a piece of software called Bit Torrent, which allows a number of people to download the same programme at the same time. The key is that as soon as you have downloaded even a small fraction of an album or a TV programme, someone else can upload it from you, without waiting until the file is complete. The more people sharing the file at any given time, the easier and quicker it is to obtain. A popular programme can take between five and seven hours to download, while a film can take twice as long and a more obscure programme up to a whole day. But for broadband Internet users, this is no deterrent: it costs nothing more to stay online for 10 hours than five minutes, so many Bit Torrent users leave their computers on overnight or all day. It is basically a search engine for Bit Torrent files, commonly known as torrents. These are small files which allow users or "peers" to download the pirated material directly from other users or "seeders". There are plenty of other such sites on the Internet, but not all of them are as popular as The Pirate Bay, which has an estimated 22 million users. Its sheer success has made it a particular thorn in the side of the music, TV and film industries, which have seen this case as an important step in stamping out the illegal sharing of copyrighted media.

How will cases effect the originators’ of original material the answer is it won’t increase royalties’ they will stay the same. It is the publishing companies who will eventually get to dominate the market, these companies or the courts won’t get to hear this! But it gives publishing companies market dominance when releasing and marketing profitable materials. All materials has to have consumer testing, but with out marketing sites this eliminates competition makes it easier to market any type of flavour even if it is bland, as long as it has a brand it have market dominance. Is this a good thing? Book club view lets you decide! This doesn’t say much for the free market when artist are just not allowed by court order to a one year penal sentence? New artiest have material that they often created from their own expense account. Often finding host sites to gain a market is this wrong? If the legal argument say it is so then what will there be. Just seems a reckless waste of human resources to Incrassate these four business men, sources BBC.