@Chris - as clueless as the judge

"Alternatively you could all just pay for your movies and music instead of downloading it from the fucking Pirate Bay. Twats."

Well played for showing a complete lack of knowledge as to how the system worked (as did the judge !). You did NOT download any copyrighted material from the pirate bay servers, you downloaded basically links to SHARED (note shared, not always copyrighted its a users choice what they share) files that are hosted on peoples machine.

If you don't like pirates fine, i'm not sure about them half the time, but at least argue a valid point!