Upon reopening, the site's number of visitors more than doubled, the increased popularity attributed to greater exposure through the media coverage. On the Swedish police organized a raid on The Pirate Bay in 12 different premises, confiscating 186 servers and causing it to go offline for three days. Swedes protesting the police raid during a demonstration on June 3, 2006 On 1 February 2012, the Supreme Court of Sweden refused to hear an appeal in the case, prompting the site to change its official domain name from to. All the defendants appealed the verdict, and in November 2010 the appeal court shortened the prison sentences, but increased damages.

The hearings ended on 3 March 2009 and the verdict was announced on Friday 17 April 2009: Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström were all found guilty and sentenced to one year imprisonment and pay a fine of 30 million SEK (about €2.7 million or US$3.5 million). The trial started on 16 February 2009 in the Stockholm District Court, Sweden. The case was decided jointly by a professional judge and three appointed lay judges. In addition, claims for damages of 117 million kronor (US$13 million) were filed. One case involving music files was later dropped by the copyright holder who made the file available again on the website of The Pirate Bay. Some 34 cases of copyright infringements were originally listed, of which 21 were related to music files, 9 to movies, and 4 to games. The prosecutor claimed the four worked together to administer, host, and develop the site and thereby facilitated other people's breach of copyright law. Swedish prosecutors filed charges on 31 January 2008 against Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, and Peter Sunde, who ran the site and Carl Lundström, a Swedish businessman who through his businesses sold services to the site. The criminal charges were supported by a consortium of intellectual rights holders led by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), who filed individual civil compensation claims against the owners of The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay trial was a joint criminal and civil prosecution in Sweden of four individuals charged for promoting the copyright infringement of others with the torrent tracking website The Pirate Bay. Protesters showing support for The Pirate Bay on the first day of the trial.

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