STOCKHOLM, Sweden – According to a published report on TorrentFreak.com, prosecutor Hakan Roswal announced this week that he plans to file copyright-infringement charges against five people associated with The Pirate cialis in usa Bay before Jan. 31, 2008.

Officials from The Pirate Bay, which bills itself as "the world's largest torrent tracker," said they are confident that Roswal's plans will not be successful. However, they said, they are ready to move to another country if necessary.

The report states that only two people associated with The Pirate Bay have been identified: co-founder Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstrom, former CEO of Rix Telecom, which at one time provided bandwidth to the site.

According to TorrentFreak.com, The Pirate Bay officials contend that they run a search engine and do not store any copyrighted material on their servers. The site has come under fire from law-enforcement agencies seeking to shut down its trading of copyrighted material, which is illegal in several countries.

Swedish police raided The Pirate Bay's offices in May 2006, taking the site offline for three days. The site returned after relocating to the Netherlands. The offices since have moved back to Sweden.

Earlier this week, The Pirate Bay announced plans to develop its own software after BitTorrent Inc., whose technology the site currently uses, announced that it was making deals with mainstream content providers.

The site typically has more than 1.5 million daily visitors.

Publish Date: November 11, 2007