The Swedish Criminal Police yesterday shut down PiratesBay, a popular site where people posted torrents, many of which were copyrighted material. From this we can learn two lessons:

1. Even though PiratesBay hosted no content of its own, providing the metadata that lets people download illegal content apparently is as illegal as providing the data itself.

2. If there are doubts about the legality of your site, don’t include the word “pirate” in it. [Tags: torrents copyright piratesbay digital_rights]

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