The document discusses the implications of the 2009 conviction of the four cofounders of The Pirate Bay website for intellectual property crimes. It questions whether the four men should have also stood trial in other countries where copyrighted material was downloaded from their site. And it asks if the outcome of the Pirate Bay trial will deter individuals and organizations worldwide from setting up future peer-to-peer sites that allow illegal file sharing of copyrighted works.

1. (a)
What implications does the conviction of the four cofounders
of The Pirate Bay Web site (in 2009) have for international
attempts to prosecute intellectual property crimes globally?
(b)
Should the four men also have been required to stand trial in
all of the countries in which copyrighted material had been
downloaded from their Web site?
(c)
Will the outcome of The Pirate Bay trail likely deter
individuals and organizations, worldwide, from setting up future
P2P
sites that allow the illicit file sharing of copyrighted material?
Please elaborate (beyond a yes or no answer) and provide your
“theoretical” rationale in support of your responses.
(comprehension)