Hollywood Studios Go After Pirate Bay

By Digital Trends Staff July 28, 2009

Back in April, the four men behind Swedish-based file-sharing site Pirate Bay were found guilty of copyright violation, fined $4.5 million, and sentenced to a year in jail. But as the appeals process grinds on, the site continues to operate as before, even thought it’s been bought by Global Gaming Factory, which spent $7 million on it, intending to turn it into a legal pay service.

It’s all apparently become too much for the major Hollywood studios. 13 of them, including Columbia Pictures and Universal Studios, have banded together to file a lawsuit intended to shut down the site.

Monique Wadsted, lawyer for the studios, told AFP:

"We have filed a complaint against The Pirate Bay because they have not stopped their activities after they were sentenced to prison."

Pirate Bay doesn’t host any files. Instead, it hosts links to files that are on users’ computers, allowing them to exchange the files.

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