Those other "pirates" in the news

Though perhaps not as alarming as the reports of piracy off of Africa's eastern coast these past couple of weeks, reports regarding another type of piracy have set off a wave of controversy that seems to have reached a head today.

Earlier today, a Swedish court found four people associated with Swedish BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay guilty of copyright infringement. In addition to paying $3.6 million in damages, the court sentenced the four defendants to a year in jail. Despite the news, the operators of the site seem upbeat: "Don't worry - we're from the internets. It's going to be alright. :-)"

I wrote a little about the case here.