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Adding insult to injury, the founders of The Pirate Bay have been promoting a scheme in protest of the recent ruling against their questionable P2P music service and to spite the law firm representing the plaintiff.  Distributed Denial of Dollars (or DDo$) is a method of attacking the victim with many micro-payments which, in turn, causes disproportional transaction fees and an overload in administration for the recipient.  This gets very interesting… and equally absurd from here.

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A Swedish court has sentenced the four founders of The Pirate Bay for one year and ordered them to pay damages to the tune of $4.5m after the most high profile filesharing crackdown since Shawn Fanning’s Napster came to ruling.  In spite of the hefty punishment, The Pirate Bay website, a BitTorrent search platform (BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer program used for uploading and downloading files), contains video footage of the founders’ amusement by the verdict, which they intend to appeal.

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