A court found that the site's operators violated copyright on illegal downloads -- but the BitTorrent site vows to keep fighting. The Pirate Bay, one of the largest BitTorrent file-sharing sites, suffered a blow today when a Swedish court found several its operators guilty of violating copyright law -- slapping them with jail terms and hefty fines. As a result of their sentence, site operators Peter Kolmisoppi, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg…
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A choppy-looking rally and a big resistance level seem like a good recipe for a pullback. How the stock market handles it will say a lot about this rally. It's been two weeks since we noted that stock indexes were facing major resistance here — and two weeks later, they're still struggling with this important zone. The S&P (first chart below) has become choppy and overlapping as it hits 878 resistance. With…
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Stocks had little to show for a day of rocky trading on Friday. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and the stock market spent a lot of time going nowhere on Friday. Google started the day lower after posting strong earnings and lower than expected sales and issuing a cautious outlook. The stock rallied 3% to its highs of the day 30 minutes later, then spent the rest of the day trying to hang onto…
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