Surprisingly the site is still up, or at least was last time I checked. The founders are appealing the decision, but the ruling has no real legal implication outside Sweden, so there's nothing to stop similar operations such as Mininova carrying on for now.

Posted By Binokular on 20 Apr 2009 01:19 AM
Surprisingly the site is still up, or at least was last time I checked. The founders are appealing the decision, but the ruling has no real legal implication outside Sweden, so there's nothing to stop similar operations such as Mininova carrying on for now.

Am open to correction but weren't they found guilty of sharing specific files rather than for running a torrent tracker to facilitate the sharing of those files?

Posted By Unicron on 20 Apr 2009 04:31 AM
Am open to correction but weren't they found guilty of sharing specific files rather than for running a torrent tracker to facilitate the sharing of those files?

No, they were found guilty of being "accessories to copyright infringment" (i.e. the service helped people infringe copyright), but the trial revolved around 30 copyrighted works.

Looks like they have strong basis to appeal this, the judge did not reveal conflict of interest. What a farce.

http://government.zdnet.com/?p=4675