The trial against The Pirate Bay site began Monday in Sweden. And while Sweden is depicted by copyright-enforcement groups as piracy’s promised land, it is also a nation that experiments with legal music-service alternatives.The case against the founders of Piratebay.org–one of the world’s three major BitTorrent sites–is expected to last 13 days, which would make it Sweden’s longest-ever trial dealing with copyright issues. The case is the result of the search and seizure of servers by Swedish police at Pirate Bay’s offices in May 2006.
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How piracy paved the way in Sweden
The trial against The Pirate Bay site began Monday in Sweden. And while Sweden is depicted by copyright-enforcement groups as piracy’s promised land, it is also a nation that experiments with legal music-service alternatives.