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Pirate Bay Triumphant As Prosecution Drops Half Of ChargesPosted at 2:42PM Tuesday 17 Feb 2009 The prosecution has dropped the most serious charges against the irreverent Swedish filesharing service The Pirate Bay on only the second day of its trial for assisting widespread copyright infringement.After being unable to prove in court that illegally distributed files had used The Pirate Bay site – despite clear markers in the files, which are labelled with the Pirate Bay name – the prosecution, representing a swathe of high-profile music and film companies including Warner Bros, MGM, Universal and EMI – had to abandon almost half the charges.
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