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Last updated: 17 april, 2009 - 17:14 GMT
File-sharing website founders convicted
Peter Sunde of The Pirate Bay described the verdict as 'bizarre'
A court in Sweden has found four men guilty of promoting copyright infringement by running The Pirate Bay website, one of the world's top file-sharing sites.
They have each been sentenced to a year in prison and they have been ordered to pay total damages of $4.5m to the recording industry.
The court case was closely watched by internet enthusiasts the world over, but what exactly is file sharing and what are the implications of the ruling?
James Holland is from Electric Pig, a technology news website.
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To explore some of the issues, Newshour's Mary-Ann Sieghart spoke to Jo Oliver, General Counsel for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, and Rikard Falkvinge, leader of the Pirate Party, a new political party in Sweden which wants to reform copyright law.
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First broadcast 17 April 2009
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