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...these days when it is easy to find almost anything on the Internet and just as simple to download. But the founders of ThePirateBay.org - three geeky Swedish would-be cultural revolutionaries who were funded in part by user donations - are in the process of finding out whether they face prison time for facilitating that process for their users...
...trio behind ThePirateBay.org could face prison if convicted on charges that amount to aiding and abetting copyright infringement on a massive scale. The most serious charge - complicity in the production of copyrighted material - was dropped earlier this week for lack of evidence, but the trio still could walk the plank, should prosecutors prevail. If they lose the criminal case, they could owe nearly $10 million sought in the civil action being heard simultaneously in the Stockholm courtroom...
That may be true, but the prosecutors and industry plaintiffs are just hoping that by the time The Pirate Bay drops anchor in a new haven the men who have captained the ship in Sweden will be much poorer - and perhaps in prison...
...that were severed by the international embargo of Iraq before the war. British and Italian firms, meanwhile, long to kick-start contracts they had from 2003 to 2004, when an explosion of insurgent violence forced most of them to abandon the country. (See pictures of life inside a Baghdad prison...
Nour has a long way to go to rebuild his political career. Though he gained respect for defying Mubarak and enduring a prison sentence, few Egyptians see the freed prisoner as a local Nelson Mandela. Many value Mubarak's National Democratic Party for bringing stability, while large numbers of government opponents support the banned Muslim Brotherhood group. Nonetheless, some observers believe that Nour's release may be an indication of greater freedom to come for all opposition parties. "This is a positive sign," says Hala Mustafa, editor of the Egyptian journal Democracy. "In the end, the regime showed a relative...