The word is just out (well, has been for a couple of hours).
The DRM nazis have convinced the scientifically illiterate jury that the four founders of Thepiratebay should spend a year in prison, as well as pay a total damages amount of 30.000.000SEK - or about 3 million euros to the already bulging pockets of their filthy rich CEOs.
The verdict was appealed on the spot by all four.
It is a sad day to see a relatively liberal country with a sane justice system being lobbyed by the US media corporations into sending innocent people to jail (although the verdict was appealed and we have not seen the last of this mock media trial).
Next, I expect the post offices to get sued because somebody keeps sending anthrax and letter bombs through them.
These technologically illiterate idiots are also threatening Norway's biggest ISP with a lawsuit if they do not block out thepiratebay's websites for all the users in their country. Luckily, our biggest ISP has some brain capacity left and has flatly refused this censorship.
This isn't about piracy. This is about outlawing technology people do not understand, and are therefore scared of. This is about the complete lack of understanding that the media and music industry has for the fact that we are not currently living in the 1980s, and that they should consider adapting slightly to the flow of the times. This is, in short, scaringly akin to the witchhunts of the middle ages - sending innocent people to jail on mock charges.
In short:
NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION.

Aye, tis really sad news :(
The idiots who put DRMs into their games should be just as guilty, if not even more, as those who encourage piracy

wtf a year of jailtime! that seems like taking it a little far, as if the massive fine weren't enough...

Well, the case is not completely over yet.
I expect that they [pirate bay] will be appealing to the next instance of the court system and we will go on the merry-go-round for a few weeks\months more before we get the final outcome.
Although, no matter if you think PB is guilty or not ( or support what they're doing or not ), if this outcome stands it will set us on a dangerous path of how and where sharing of information and data will be allowed. If so I am for one expecting the MPAA, RIAA and all the other acronymed watchdogs will be expanding their stupidity to encompass even more far flung lawsuits.

Is somebody expecting my inquisition fellas?
PS: The veredict is absurd.

Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous...

So, will they close PB or what? I've got lots of stuff to download yet :P

Nah, it'll carry on as usual.
Besides, this is all just a political stunt.
In any case, only one of the Judges was a proper professional, the rest were Layman judges. It'll be ages before the case reaches the supreme court of appeal in higher instances.
Also, this does set a weird precedent. The Pirate Bay is just a search, it doesn't host the files. Which... is the same as google, to be honest.
They were found guilty of aiding the illegal downloading of copyright material, which is pretty hard to argue against, though.

I actually expected them to get found guilty, unfortunately.
But the fine and jail term? I mean, how is that ever reasonable? Jail time especially, that just sucks.
Good luck to them on their appeal.

Not the comfy chair!
Even if they do kill The Pirate Bay, there will be others who pop up in thier place. There are already other trackers out there anyways, so good job on wasting time and money hunting "pirates".

Thats pretty hilarious if so. What's the point of the drama then?

Surely since the recent events off the coast of Somalia, illegal digital downloading will have to be referred to correctly as "Copyright Infringement"

Or just plain old "thievery"...

Well what did you expect? They didn't really do anything to stop torrents of pirated movies/games, etc., from being hosted on the site. In fact the very name of site can be taken as them actively encouraging it.
I'd certainly be up in arms over the ruling if it wasn't for the fact that they pretty much allow rampant copyright theft which ultimately just ****s it up for the rest of us non-theiving people. Shut it down I say and good riddance.
Of course, they then need to shut down all the rest too...

So...
Jail time for a civil judicial procedure?
I mean that is the case isn't it. A company (you know something private which has no law enforcing power whatsoever) sues another company.
And the court decides that the other company should pay and the members should spend some time in jail.
I can't see this hold up further along the line and at least expect them not to be sentenced to jail.
If not, then weird things are going to happen in Sweden (and the rest of the world) where companies can change the law if they think that that could increase revenues.