Unscientific poll on The Pirate Bay sentence -- UPDATED

By at 10:43 pm Saturday, Apr 18

Here's the current (06:35BST, April 19, 2009) standing in a Guardian poll on the jail-time-and-millions-in-fines sentence handed down to the defendants in the Swedish Pirate Bay case. It's an unscientific poll, of course, but it's also telling: if the objective of the lawsuit was to make the public feel like the Pirate Bay was illegitimate and that downloaders should stick to official services like iTunes, then this suggests pretty abject failure on that score.

A fair sentence for pirates? (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

Update:I'm an idiot who can't read graphs, clearly, Teach me to post at 5:30 in the morning.

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