Wow... I wonder if anyone has ever been tried for informing people. "Hey, where can I buy some boot-legs?" "I heard that John Doe has some" "Ok, thanks, by the way, for telling me, you get to go to jail for a year..."
I know that their site is called "The Pirate Bay" and the intentions of what the site provides is pretty obvious, but the prosecution had accused them for the WRONG reasons, which was that they held illegally copied content on their servers. It's not about the 'principle' of the trial, it's about proving your point that the defense is guilty of *insert accusation*, which the prosecution had to change, and then rewrite that, just to attempt to pin TPB with something.
I don't know about anyone else, but I've seen quite a few people get away from charges they rightfully deserved due to 'lack of evidence' In this trial, there was no evidence, only probable intent and they still got slammed.