Good Pirates Get Busted

The only good pirates in the world got busted! The guys behind The Pirate Bay were sentenced yesterday to a one-year jail sentence, but vowed to users "the losing party will appeal."

Swedish courts ruled against the founders of The Pirate Bay, the file-sharing web site we have all used, on Friday. Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmsioppi, and Carl Lundstroem were handed a year behind bars and ordered to pay $3.6 million in compensation and damages. After the verdict was announced Kolmsioppi went to his Twitter page to tell fans: "Nothing will happen to TPB [The Pirate Bay], us personally or file-sharing whatsoever. This is just a theatre for the media."

Here’s hoping these pirates can continue to loot…