Posts Tagged ‘trial’

Pirate Bay Founders Guilty of Copyright Infringement

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Just announced that the founders of The Pirate Bay have been found guilty of breaking copyright laws.

They’ve been fined €2.7 million and given a year in prison.

No doubt they’ll appeal.

There’s an online news conference at 1pm Swedish Time (GMT+1 / CET).

BBC To Open Up Video Archive

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

The BBC are opening up their TV and radio archives to the public. In a new trial 20,000 people will have on-demand access to full length programmes, scripts and notes.

The plan is to allow access to over 1 million hours of programming to the entire UK population. Now if only RTE would consider doing the same.