https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed An appeal by the four men convicted in the Pirate Bay trial opens on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20100926/29250 Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:50:00 +0200 29250 Swedish file sharing website The Pirate Bay is up and running again hours after an indictment in a Hamburg court persuaded its German ISP to pull the plug, having found a new home with its anti-copyright brethren, the Pirate Party. https://www.thelocal.se/20100518/26714 Tue, 18 May 2010 16:24:00 +0200 26714 Swedish file sharing website The Pirate Bay was out of service for a couple of hours on Tuesday morning after its German ISP bowed to Hollywood pressure to cut off its internet service. https://www.thelocal.se/20100518/26704 Tue, 18 May 2010 11:39:00 +0200 26704 The judges appointed to preside over the appeal of the four men found guilty in the Pirate Bay appeals hearing in September have been cleared from bias allegations, the Supreme Court (Högsta Domstolen) ruled on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20100512/26612 Wed, 12 May 2010 19:31:00 +0200 26612 An appeal launched by the four men found guilty in the Pirate Bay trial is unlikely to be heard until next summer, a Swedish appeals court announced on Monday. https://www.thelocal.se/20091019/22746 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:59:00 +0200 22746 A Dutch court on Thursday ordered Swedish file sharing website The Pirate Bay be banned from operating in the Netherlands. https://www.thelocal.se/20090731/21016 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:47:00 +0200 21016 An entertainment industry association from the Netherlands has used Twitter and Facebook to deliver a court summons to the three men behind The Pirate Bay file sharing site. https://www.thelocal.se/20090624/20244 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:51:00 +0200 20244 Lawyers representing record companies have demanded that a Swedish court impose fines on three of the backers of The Pirate Bay if they do not close the site. The court has now rejected the lawyers' demands to act without first giving the three a chance to respond. https://www.thelocal.se/20090525/19656 Mon, 25 May 2009 16:59:00 +0200 19656 The US entertainment companies who last month claimed victory in The Pirate Bay trial have now appealed the verdict, arguing that the fines imposed on the four men convicted in the case were too low. https://www.thelocal.se/20090520/19572 Wed, 20 May 2009 18:56:00 +0200 19572 Bank accounts belonging to the four men found guilty in the Pirate Bay trial will be frozen as early as Wednesday, according to Sweden’s official debt collection agency. https://www.thelocal.se/20090512/19412 Tue, 12 May 2009 18:29:00 +0200 19412 The jail sentences for the founders of The Pirate Bay have attracted wide international attention, with file sharers and copyright holders around the world trying to work out their significance. While entertainment industry bosses are delighted, some experts wonder whether it will make any difference. https://www.thelocal.se/20090417/18930 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:52:00 +0200 18930 The four men connected with The Pirate Bay were found guilty of being accessories to copyright infringement by a Swedish court on Friday, delivering a symbolic victory in the entertainment industry’s efforts to put a stop to the sharing of copyrighted material on the internet. https://www.thelocal.se/20090417/18908 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:50:00 +0200 18908 The Pirate Bay trial was interrupted several times on Thursday following a heated exchange between a Swedish media professor and record industry lawyers. https://www.thelocal.se/20090226/17866 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:15:00 +0100 17866 Tempers flared during The Pirate Bay trial on Wednesday afternoon as a record company executive argued the popular file sharing site was to blame for falling music sales. https://www.thelocal.se/20090225/17836 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:39:00 +0100 17836 Attorneys representing the four men charged in The Pirate Bay trial spent Monday afternoon challenging antipiracy lawyers about their knowledge of how the popular file sharing site works. https://www.thelocal.se/20090224/17806 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:08:00 +0100 17806 The Pirate Bay trial was interrupted on Friday morning as lawyers quarreled over admissible evidence, prompting a defence attorney to liken the proceedings to an episode of the classic US legal drama Perry Mason. https://www.thelocal.se/20090220/17730 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:19:00 +0100 17730 Two of the people behind The Pirate Bay took questions from the prosecutor and recording industry lawyers on Thursday, calling the popular file sharing site "a hobby site" and "a really strong brand". https://www.thelocal.se/20090219/17708 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:13:00 +0100 17708 The Swedish website of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) was hacked on Wednesday evening as internet intruders called on Håkan Roswall, chief prosecutor in the ongoing Pirate Bay tial, to "stop lying". https://www.thelocal.se/20090219/17686 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:08:00 +0100 17686 As the Pirate Bay trial entered its third day on Wednesday, lawyers for the entertainment industry defended their compensation claims against the four defendants, whose lawyers in turn did their best to poke holes in the prosecution’s case. https://www.thelocal.se/20090218/17670 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:41:00 +0100 17670 Håkan Roswall, the prosecutor in the trial of the men behind the popular file sharing site The Pirate Bay surprised a Stockholm court by amending the charges as the trial entered its second day on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20090217/17640 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:21:00 +0100 17640