Italian authorities have been investigating The Pirate Bay file-sharing site, with a view to bringing charges of assisting copyright infringement. This comes just weeks after the four men behind the site were found guilty of the same charge in their native Sweden, where they were sentenced to a year in jail and a fine of over $3 million.
However, it raises interesting questions of jurisdiction, according to the Guardian. Although Pirate Bay is run from Sweden, its servers (which don’t host files) are reportedly in Holland. Three of the four men behind the operation are believed to live in Switzerland, with only one still living in Sweden.
