The Pirate Bay ran for years as the world's most notorious torrent tracker before its three founders ever faced a courtroom, and this film picks up as that finally changes. Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, and Gottfrid Svartholm are followed through the Swedish trial that put them on trial for facilitating mass copyright infringement, with cameras in the courtroom, in their homes, and backstage at the press conferences where they needle the entertainment industry lawyers pursuing them. The film treats them less as criminals than as a case study in what happens when a small group of programmers builds infrastructure the world's media companies cannot control. Their bravado in interviews sits next to real anxiety about prison time and fines running into the millions, and the verdict lands as a turning point rather than a resolution. Shot over the trial and its aftermath, the film stays close enough to its subjects that their exhaustion and defiance both come through unfiltered.