Swedish Court Rejects Pirate Bay Appeal
Rather than make things better for the Pirate Bay quartet, a Swedish appeals court has made things much worse, adding nearly $5 million to the total damages.
A court in Sweden has rejected the appeal of the three founders of the Pirate Bay torrent site Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and their backer Carl Lundstrom, following their conviction for assisting copyright infringement earlier in the year.
Svartholm, Neij, Sunde and Lundstrom, were convicted in April after a tend day long trail and ordered to serve a year in prison, plus pay a collective fine of $2 million.
They appealed the verdict, but the appeals court upheld the convictions from April for three of the four men - the youngest member of the quartet, Svartholm, was unable to attend court due to illness, so his case will be heard separately. The court also tweaked the sentences a little, decreasing the amount of jail time each man would serve from a year to between four and ten months, but increasing their collective fines from $2 million to $6.5 million.
Following the verdict, Sunde tweeted [http://twitter.com/#!/brokep/status/8151177476706304] that the court's decision was wrong and they should have looked at the evidence properly and come to a better judgment. Defense lawyers for Neij and Lundstrom said that they were disappointed, but not surprised by the verdict, and said that they would probably take the matter to the European Supreme Court.
Source: The Guardian [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/nov/26/pirate-bay-founders-appeal]
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A court in Sweden has rejected the appeal of the three founders of the Pirate Bay torrent site Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and their backer Carl Lundstrom, following their conviction for assisting copyright infringement earlier in the year.
Svartholm, Neij, Sunde and Lundstrom, were convicted in April after a tend day long trail and ordered to serve a year in prison, plus pay a collective fine of $2 million.
They appealed the verdict, but the appeals court upheld the convictions from April for three of the four men - the youngest member of the quartet, Svartholm, was unable to attend court due to illness, so his case will be heard separately. The court also tweaked the sentences a little, decreasing the amount of jail time each man would serve from a year to between four and ten months, but increasing their collective fines from $2 million to $6.5 million.
Following the verdict, Sunde tweeted [http://twitter.com/#!/brokep/status/8151177476706304] that the court's decision was wrong and they should have looked at the evidence properly and come to a better judgment. Defense lawyers for Neij and Lundstrom said that they were disappointed, but not surprised by the verdict, and said that they would probably take the matter to the European Supreme Court.
Source: The Guardian [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/nov/26/pirate-bay-founders-appeal]
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