The drama reached its peak in 2009. The four founders (including Carl Lundström) went on trial in Stockholm, charged with "assisting making available copyrighted content."
But here is the twist: They appealed. Lost. Appealed again. Lost. Yet, Even while the founders were in prison, anonymous volunteers kept the servers running. piraté bay
On a server in Belgium, they launched a BitTorrent tracker. The goal was simple: provide a search engine where users could find torrent files (small pointers to data, not the data itself) hosted on millions of individual computers. The drama reached its peak in 2009
(Disclaimer: This article is for informational and historical purposes only. Torrenting copyrighted material without permission may violate the law in your jurisdiction. Always support artists legally when you can.) piraté bay