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The Pirate Bay Founder Ordered to Pay $395,000 Fine in Lawsuit he didn't even know about

One of the founders of notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has been ordered to pay a fine worth nearly US$400,000 to several major record labels after their content was shared illegally via the platform.

The penalty has been imposed on The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde by a court in Helsinki, Finland.

Interestingly, Sunde, who already left the notorious file sharing site in

Google Wins Epic Java Copyright Case Against Oracle

Google has finally won six-year long $9-billion legal battle with Oracle over the use of Java APIs in Android.

Oracle filed its lawsuit against Google in 2010, claiming that the company illegally used 11,500 lines of Java code in its Android operating system, violating copyrights owned by Oracle.

However, a federal jury of ten people concluded Thursday that Google’s use of Java constituted “