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Submission + - Twitter anger over bomb tweeter

Submitted by Idimmu Xul on Saturday November 13, 2010 @04:28AM

Idimmu Xul writes: The BBC and NY Times are reporting that Tweeters have joined forces to support Paul Chambers, the man convicted and fined for a Twitter message threatening to blow up an airport. Thousands of Twitter users are retweeting his original joke message with the #iamspartacus tag in protest of the conviction. So far there have been no subsequent arrests for people doing exactly the same thing as Paul.

Submission + - Pirate Bay founders found guilty

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Idimmu Xul

on Friday April 17, 2009 @05:38AM

Idimmu Xul writes: "The BBC are reporting that a court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's most high-profile file-sharing website.

Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail. They were also ordered to pay 30m kronor (£2.4m) in damages. In a Twitter posting, Mr Sunde said: "Nothing will happen to TPB, this is just theatre for the media.""

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