{"id":77948,"date":"2013-05-15T19:20:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T17:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=77948"},"modified":"2013-05-16T11:18:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T09:18:24","slug":"the-pirate-bay-close-down-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/77948-the-pirate-bay-close-down-request.html","title":{"rendered":"The Pirate Bay close down request"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swedish prosecutors have launched a new attempt to close down the popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay<\/a>, asking a court to block internet addresses used to access the site.<\/p>\n

The Pirate Bay, one of the world’s biggest file-sharing sites, allows individuals to download movies, music and games without paying. The global entertainment industry has repeatedly tried to block its activities.<\/p>\n

Swedish prosecutors have asked the court to de-register the domain names “piratebay.se” and “thepiratebay.se”. Sweden’s Internet Infrastructure Foundation registers and administers the country’s “.se” internet addresses.<\/p>\n

“They have been used as a means to commit crime,” prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“There is a significant criminal copyright infringement which causes a great deal of damage to many.”<\/p>\n

The Pirate Bay uses a domain name registered in Sint Maarten, a Dutch territory in the Caribbean. The Internet Infrastructure Foundation said de-listing the “.se” domain names would not stop people using the site.<\/p>\n

“People who want to use the site would get to it anyway,” Maria Ekelund, a spokeswoman for the Foundation, said.<\/p>\n

In 2009, a court in Sweden – where The Pirate Bay was founded in 2003 – fined and sentenced to jail three men then behind the site for breaching copyright in a case brought by firms including Sony Universal Music and EMI.<\/p>\n

The site continued to operate after the convictions, despite police seizing the servers used by The Pirate Bay. The site is now run by an unknown group.<\/p>\n

More on The Pirate Bay<\/h3>\n

Pirate Bay heads to the cloud<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Pirate Bay outage and ADSL traffic in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Pirate Bay downtime continues<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pirate Bay co-founder arrested on new charges<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Online pirates\u2019 Internet to be cut off in SA?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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