Saturday, March 7, 2009, 12:39pm
Roswall ended his argument by demanding one year in jail for each of the defendants -- half of the maximum term. He asked for fines amounting to The Pirate Bay's gross income from advertising revenue on the site. He was able to document the equivalent of $180,000 in income from ad sales on the site, but he argued that the actual numbers are likely quite higher. Roswall claimed the site runs as many as 64 concurrent ads, which he said earned it some 10 million kronor -- about $1.2 million.
"That is pure fiction," defendant Fredrik Neij protested in the intermission. "There are four banner spaces, not 64. They have counted different versions of the same ads."
"I was startled to hear the nasty old man settling for one year only, " said co-defendant Gottfrid Svartholm Warg. "I had expected two years. Where are my 10 million kronor, please? I want them, where are they?"
Can't they just look at their bank accounts and see that the majority of the money from the ads pays their hosting bills? I guess it should be pointed out that they do not host the copyrighted material, they merely host the data that tells others where to get it from.