But one of the defendants have already said he won't be able to attend the trial
The case against the four people involved in the running of Pirate Bay is heading back to court at the end of September. The appeals trial is tentatively scheduled to start on Sep 28., the Svea Court of Appeals said on Wednesday.
Since the site is still open, founders have to pay, according to record companies
The Stockholm District Court should decide that two of The Pirate Bay's founders have to pay a fine since the file-sharing site is still open and they are still involved, according to a recent filing from the music industry.
Lawyers hail policies as in line with Europe, though some ISPs are critical
Italian antipiracy campaigners have hailed a recent ruling by Italy's highest appeal court as a "landmark" in the international battle against copyright theft, though service providers appear uneasy.
Mininova has removed most of its links to copyrighted content.
Mininova, one of the largest peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing sites next to The Pirate Bay, has now removed most of its links to copyrighted content. The site complied with a Dutch court ruling from August. Mininova has said it is considering appealing that ruling.
The entertainment industry has been trying to get Telenor to block The Pirate Bay since February
Norwegian ISP Telenor doesn't have to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, according to a ruling from the district court for Asker and Bærum on Friday.
AFACT asks iiNet why it did not block BitTorrent tracker site, The Pirate Bay.
The Government's ISP filtering trial has featured prominently in the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft’s (AFACT) cross examination of iiNet CEO, Michael Malone.
The entertainment industry hopes to shut down the file-sharing site
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay should be closed, and if it isn't, two of the founders will each have to pay a fine of 500,000 Swedish kronor (US$71,500), according to a verdict in the Stockholm District Court on Wednesday.
The question of bias forces a court to postpone the trial indefinitely
The appeals of those convicted in April in the high-profile Pirate Bay copyright violations trial won't be heard until next year, the court said on Monday.
RapidShare, others provide 'essentially your own private FTP server'
Driven by increased crackdowns on BitTorrent sites such as The Pirate Bay, software pirates are fast-moving their warez to file-hosting Web sites.
The judge's involvement in the streaming music service Spotify is not acceptable
One of the lay judges scheduled to hear the appeal in The Pirate Bay case has been deemed to be biased by the Svea Court of Appeals because of his involvement in the streaming music service Spotify, the court said on Tuesday.
A reported debt to the company's former CTO may cause more problems for Global Gaming Factory's bid for The Pirate Bay
The CEO of prospective Pirate Bay buyer Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) is about have large parts of his assets frozen after a decision in the Stockholm district court. If his stake in GGF is frozen it could spell even more trouble for a deal that already seems to be doomed.
But questions about the acquisition are still unanswered
The stock of prospective Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) will from Wednesday be traded on Mangoldlistan, a Swedish exchange run by a securities brokerage company. But GGF's new home, on an exchange that lists only seven companies, hasn't answered any of the questions about its proposed acquisition of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay.
The district court made a very controversial decision, CEO says
Swedish ISP Black Internet has decided to appeal in the Stockholm district court the verdict that led to it closing file-sharing site The Pirate Bay's data connection.
The move by the Swedish stock exchange AktieTorget puts the deal to buy the file-shearing site in serious jeopardy
Global Gaming Factory X (GGF), which is trying to buy the file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, has been delisted from the Swedish stock exchange AktieTorget, putting the acquisition plans in jeopardy.
The threat of a fine is enough to turn off the file-sharing site
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay went down on Monday after its ISP (Internet service provider), Black Internet, cut its connection to avoid being fined by the Stockholm district court.
