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| Pirate Bay joy at charge change | Pirate Bay joy at charge change |
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| Half of the charges levelled at the founders of the Pirate Bay file-sharing site have been dropped. | Half of the charges levelled at the founders of the Pirate Bay file-sharing site have been dropped. |
| Swedish prosecutors dropped charges relating to "assisting copyright infringement" leaving the lesser charges of "assisting making available copyright material" on trial day two. | Swedish prosecutors dropped charges relating to "assisting copyright infringement" leaving the lesser charges of "assisting making available copyright material" on trial day two. |
| Pirate Bay co-founder Frederik Neik said it showed prosecutors had misunderstood the technology. | Pirate Bay co-founder Frederik Neik said it showed prosecutors had misunderstood the technology. |
| The music industry played down the changes as "simplifying the charges". | The music industry played down the changes as "simplifying the charges". |
| Peter Danowsky, legal counsel for the music companies in the case, said: "It's a largely technical issue that changes nothing in terms of our compensation claims and has no bearing whatsoever on the main case against The Pirate Bay. | Peter Danowsky, legal counsel for the music companies in the case, said: "It's a largely technical issue that changes nothing in terms of our compensation claims and has no bearing whatsoever on the main case against The Pirate Bay. |
| "In fact it simplifies the prosecutor's case by allowing him to focus on the main issue, which is the making available of copyrighted works." | "In fact it simplifies the prosecutor's case by allowing him to focus on the main issue, which is the making available of copyrighted works." |
| The Pirate Bay was launched in 2003 and quickly established itself as the world's most high profile file-sharing website. In February 2009, it reported 22 million simultaneous users. | |
| At the start of the trial in Stockholm, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmsioppi and Carl Lundstorm were facing a large fine and up to two years in prison, if convicted. | At the start of the trial in Stockholm, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmsioppi and Carl Lundstorm were facing a large fine and up to two years in prison, if convicted. |
| "This is a sensation. It is very rare to win half the target in just one and a half days and it is clear that the prosecutor took strong note of what we said yesterday," defence lawyer Per E Samuelson told the TorrentFreak website, which reports on developments in the BitTorrent file-sharing community. | "This is a sensation. It is very rare to win half the target in just one and a half days and it is clear that the prosecutor took strong note of what we said yesterday," defence lawyer Per E Samuelson told the TorrentFreak website, which reports on developments in the BitTorrent file-sharing community. |
| BitTorrent is a legal application used by many file-shares to swap content because of the fast and efficient manner it distributes files. | BitTorrent is a legal application used by many file-shares to swap content because of the fast and efficient manner it distributes files. |
| No copyright content is hosted on The Pirate Bay's web servers; instead the site hosts "torrent" links to TV, film and music files held on its users computers. | No copyright content is hosted on The Pirate Bay's web servers; instead the site hosts "torrent" links to TV, film and music files held on its users computers. |