Torrent filing sharing site ThePirateBay.com founders Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, Carol Lundstrom, Peter Sunde, have all just been found guilty by a Swedish district court today for “assisting in making copyright content available.” All have been handed down one-year jail sentences. They have also been ordered to pay $3.6 million in damages to the film owners. They will all appeal the decision. The verdict will likely not have any impact on other Torrent trackers or file sharing generally.

If you want to know if your ISP blocks or throttles applications you are running, you can now use a new open source Google tool called Measurement Labs that is designed to tell you if your connection is throttled by your ISP via various diagnostic measurements. ISPs have been accused of blocking connections to various applications including BitTorrent and giving very slow connection speeds Read the full story