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images/news/bittorrent.jpgThree Pirate Bay defendants and Carl Lundstom, a Swedish businessman who used to run Rix Telecom and is accused of being a Pirate Bay investor, were in the dock listening. Roswall painted the group as businesspeople out to make serious money from their operations, and he detailed the site's genesis and growth since being launched back in 2004.

Those who understand what The Pirate Bay is and how BitTorrent works won't find much new or shocking in Roswall's summary of the case; the question is simply whether creating a search engine and tracker service that traffics mainly in copyrighted content is illegal in Sweden or not.

The music labels did provide a bit of new information, however—specifically, the amount of money they want from The Pirate Bay. It turns out to be over $13 million (117 million krona).

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"The operators of The Pirate Bay have violated those rights and, as the evidence in Court will show, they did so to make substantial revenues for themselves. That kind of abuse of the rights of others cannot be allowed to continue, and that is why these criminal proceedings are so important for the health of the creative community."

Ow great, so, TPB was started, just to make money?
Great, since when? That must've been AFTER they started their site...
Most sites start out to just break even! Even Google and AOL website started out to be "at least self-sustaining", since when is that illegal?