“We think it is good that this issue has been examined. SE public relations manager Elisabeth Nilsson informs TorrentFreak. “We have received the verdict and are of course glad that the court chose to decide according to our view,”. While copyright holders will be pleased that two of Pirate Bay’s domains will be put out of action (they will be seized by the Swedish state), the District Court dismissed the prosecution’s case against and awarded the registry close to $40,000 (SEK 332,000) in costs.
The prosecutor’s primary claim with respect to Fredrik Neij should be upheld and domain names should be confiscated from him in accordance with the Copyright Act.” It is therefore no obstacle to confiscate domain names from him. “Fredrik Neij has participated in the crimes that have been identified and he is the actual holder of the domain names. “The District Court’s conclusion is that the domain names are property that can be forfeited,” the ruling reads. Furthermore, disabling domains is an ineffective way to deal with infringement.Īfter two years preparation the case was heard at the end of April 2015 and just a few minutes ago the decision was handed down.Īfter a week-long delay the Stockholm District Court ruled that The Pirate Bay will forfeit its Sweden-based domains – and – after finding that they belong to Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij. Punkt SE, on the other hand, took the position that holding a registry responsible for infringement has no basis in law. Noting that Punkt SE supplies and controls the domains and is therefore liable for their (mis)use, the domains should be dealt with in the same way that other criminal tools would be, Ingblad argued. SE domain, the case reasoned that since The Pirate Bay is an illegal operation, its domains are tools used by the site to infringe copyright. In 2013, Prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad, the man behind the operation that took the site down in December, filed a motion targeting (the site’s main domain) and (a lesser used alternative).įiled against Punkt SE, the organization responsible for Sweden’s top level. In keeping with a global strategy to disrupt the operations of unauthorized file-sharing sites by attacking their infrastructure, Swedish authorities have been eying two domains operated by the notorious Pirate Bay.
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