April 17, 2009 — The four Swedes responsible for file-sharing website the Pirate Bay were convicted on copyright charges by a Stockholm court, which gave them a year’s prison sentence each and ordered them to pay a total of roughly $3.57 million in fines.
March 13, 2009 — In early March, Texas-based global IT hosting provider The Planet announced its first international data center, planned to open in April in London, England. The new facility will help The Planet meet both international customer demand and globally redundant hosted infrastructure needs.