网站Pirate Bay面临法庭新判决

时间：2009-10-25 03:11:05

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The founders1 of The Pirate Bay have been hit a with new order to remove links to copyright material.

网站The Pirate Bay的创建者接到命令，必须去除有版权材料的链接。

Founders of The Pirate Bay are considering an appeal.
Founders of The Pirate Bay are considering an appeal.

A Dutch court has ordered them to to remove all links to the material of a group of Netherlands-based music and film makers2.

The trio could face fines of up to $9m (£5.5m) if they do not comply within three months.

However they claim that since selling the file-sharing website in 2006 they no longer have control over it.

They also dispute some of the evidence presented by music and film copyright protection body, Stichting Brein.

The action, brought by Stichting Brein, was against The Pirate Bay's former spokesperson Peter Sunde, along with founders Frederik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholmmen.

The Pirate Bay is a file-sharing website in which people share music, films and games by bit-torrent or peer-to-peer links. None of the material actually sits on the site's servers.

It claims to have 22m users worldwide.

"The verdict（判决） is not against The Pirate Bay," Peter Sunde told the BBC.

"It's against the former owners of TPB, plus me. Which puts us in a weird3（怪异的） position, since none of us have the control they tell us to get. Does the court require us to hack4 someone else's system?"

Mr Sunde added that they had not yet decided5 what to do about the outcome.

The current owner of The Pirate Bay is a Seychelles-based company called Riversella Ltd.

As part of the case, Strichting Brein submitted a report stating that the Chief Executive of Riversella is Frederik Neij - which The Pirate Bay founders deny.

"We were quite sure (Frederik) did not have an offshore6 company（国外公司） setup and do all of this," wrote Mr Sunde on his blog.

"And if he did, at least he would be smart enough to not be a director in it."

It is not the first time the founders of The Pirate Bay have been the subject of legal action.

In April they were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to pay $4.5m (£2.8m) in damages to a coalition7（联合，联盟） of media firms.


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1 founders 863257b2606659efe292a0bf3114782c     
n.创始人( founder的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • He was one of the founders of the university's medical faculty. 他是该大学医学院的创建人之一。 来自辞典例句
  • The founders of our religion made this a cornerstone of morality. 我们宗教的创始人把这看作是道德的基石。 来自辞典例句
2 makers 22a4efff03ac42c1785d09a48313d352     
n.制造者，制造商（maker的复数形式）
参考例句：
  • The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
  • The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 weird bghw8     
adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的
参考例句：
  • From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
  • His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。
4 hack BQJz2     
n.劈，砍，出租马车；v.劈，砍，干咳
参考例句：
  • He made a hack at the log.他朝圆木上砍了一下。
  • Early settlers had to hack out a clearing in the forest where they could grow crops.早期移民不得不在森林里劈出空地种庄稼。
5 decided lvqzZd     
adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的
参考例句：
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
6 offshore FIux8     
adj.海面的，吹向海面的；adv.向海面
参考例句：
  • A big program of oil exploration has begun offshore.一个大规模的石油勘探计划正在近海展开。
  • A gentle current carried them slowly offshore.和缓的潮流慢慢地把他们带离了海岸。
7 coalition pWlyi     
n.结合体，同盟，结合，联合
参考例句：
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。

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