Just read this bit of news and it came as a bit of a shock. The four people who run and maintain The Pirate Bay, a website for sharing files via th eBit Torrent protocol, have all been jailed for a year and fined $4.5m (about £3m). What’s weird about this is everybody expected them to win this court case and their was even rumour that once Time Warner lost they were going to buy the site and all affiliated products.

You can read the full story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8003799.stm