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Four men who run one of the most popular file-sharing sites in the world have been charged with conspiracy to break copyright law in Sweden.
The Pirate Bay’s servers do not store copyrighted material but offer links to the download location of films, TV programmes, albums and software.
The website is said to have between 10 and 15 million users around the world and is supported by online advertising.
Police seized computers in May 2006, temporarily shutting down the website.
According to the Pirate Bay website, its users are currently downloading close to a million files.
“The operation of The Pirate Bay is financed through advertising revenues. In that way it commercially exploits copywrite-protected work and performances,” prosecutor Hakan Roswall said in a statement.
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