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Pirate Bay web address is sold

Updated on 30 June 2009

By Benjamin Cohen

Sentenced to jail, fined, but back to fight another day. Pirate Bay founders sell company for millions - but can the new owners really make it all above board?

A Pirate Bay t-shirt (picture: Reuters)

Its founders have been sentenced to jail, and fined £2m for running the world's largest illegal filesharing website.

But today the men behind Pirate Bay have sold the site to a Swedish company which plans to make it legitimate. Our technology correspondent Benjamin Cohen reports.

Interview: Peter Sunde

Benjamin Cohen speaks to the Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde about his plans for Video Bay


 

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