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Prosecution Drops Half of the Charges against The Pirate Bay

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Submitted by rkamens on Wed, 2009-02-18 03:26.

Good news is coming out of Sweden today as we learn that half of the charges against the operators of The Pirate Bay were dropped by the prosecutors. Many people in the tech community have been carefully watching this trial as it progresses and the entertainment industry attempts to prosecute The Pirate Bay for running, what essentially is, a search engine.

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