you may need to figure out the difference between Swedish and Swiss

thepiratebay is Swedish, not Swiss.

well, to be precisely true, Sharereactor was run by a Swiss guy, and it was indeed torn down by the police. But the guy did not get in jail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShareReactor

but Sharereactor was designed for exchanging movies illegally, whereas rapidshare tries to be different :)

None of them are sitting in jail right now.