Somali pirates? These guys are everywhere nowadays. Well, mostly off the coast of Somalia, but you know, like, in news media. So what’s the deal?

Yesterday, the verdict in the Pirate Bay case was announced, and it might have been a surprise to the part of the audience that respond to their aliases more than to their names.

YouTube is in talks with Sony Pictures over licencing full-length feature films through the video broadcasting website, according to CNET News this week. YouTube, which was aquired by Google in 2006, is slowly cleaning up its reputation for hosting uncleared content, the bulk of which has been user submitted. Instead, in the fight for an increasingly restless audience, they have been working on getting premium content from the media powerhouses.

Last month, the case against the Pirate Bay started in a court in Stockholm. Already in the second day of the trial, half of the charges were dropped “due to serious shortcomings in the prosecution evidence.” All charges for “assisting copyright infringement” had to be dropped because of non-cleared evidence material, inaccurate screen grabs and other evidence flaws. The remaining charges are for “assisting making available.”