[HIB]Why the Pirate Bay Four should stay free

The four men convicted for their role in running file-sharing site The Pirate Bay have come under scathing attack from the chief executive of UK-based anti-piracy body the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST). In a press release sent to THINQ today, John Lovelock bemoaned the fact that the four pirate captains were still at large. Site founders Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Peter Sunde, along with businessman Carl Lundström, who supplied services to The Pirate Bay, were found guilty in May last year of helping millions of users to breach copyright law by illegally sharing music, films and software using the BitTorrent tracking site. Each of them was handed a year in prison, and a fine totalling more than $3.5 million. So it positively pains the aptly-named Lovelock to see all of them still at liberty, presumably enjoying the tropical weather that has recently warmed the Baltic to record temperatures.

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