STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Four men identified as managers of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, which provides a search engine for BitTorrent files, were indicted Thursday on charges of copyright infringement.
Hans Fredrik Neij, Per Svartholm Warg, Peter Kolmisoppi and Carl Lundström were indicted for running The Pirate Bay.
According to charges filed by senior public prosecutor Håkan Roswall, the site "promotes other people's infringements and breaching of copyright laws."
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The charge sheet consists of 33 cases involving alleged copyright infringement. Twenty of the cases involve music, nine involve movies, and four involve computer games.
Roswall pointed out dozens of works that had been illegally downloaded through The Pirate Bay, including The Beatles' "Let It Be," Robbie Williams' "Intensive Care" and the movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.