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  Canadian recording industry cheers; The Pirate Bay vows to keep on fighting
  Canadian recording artists and other digital rights holders will benefit from a Swedish court ruling that is seeing the founders of the file sharing web site The Pirate Bay sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to pay a large fine for breaking copyright law, according to the Canadian Recording Industry Association.
  CRIA was cheering a ruling in a case that has been closely watched by copyright experts and Internet users around the globe. The web site bills itself as the world's largest BitTorrent tracker. BitTorrent is a filesharing protocol that allows downloads of digital content and while users could track everything from music to movies to video games and other content through The Private Bay site, it argued it didn't contravene copyright because it doesn't store the copyright material.
  Pfohl said that with The Pirate Bay reported in February of this year that it had 22 million simultaneous users and reports indicating it handles 50 per cent of all BitTorrent traffic on the Internet, the court decision will have considerable impact.
  "It will have a direct impact on Canadian artists and rights holders," he said. "Pirate Bay is the largest site of its kind in the world.
  The court sentenced Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Carl Lundstrom were sentenced to a year in jail, and ordered The Pirate Bay to pay a penalty of 30 million Swedish kronor (about Cdn$4.3 million) to a number of copyright holders including Warner Bros, EMI, Columbia Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment.
  In a press conference held by the Swedish company, The Pirate Bay promised to appeal the ruling, which it described on its Web site as a "crazy verdict."