
Today's
Wall Street Journal reports that the operators of BitTerrorist haven The Pirate Bay
will likely have "conspiracy to breach copyright" charges slapped on them by prosecutors in the site's home country of Sweden. This is despite copyright laws that are generally more lax than the ones in effect in the rest of the world, the fact that the country has a somewhat robust political party
whose platform is pro-piracy, and the generally positive view of the site by Swedish residents, who, according to the
WSJ, view the site's founders as "plucky upstarts who dared to take on Hollywood."
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