Pirate Bay Supreme Court appeal denied - prison ahoy!

The founders of Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström, have failed in a new attempt to have their jail sentences for criminal copyright infringement offences overturned. Sweden's Supreme Court will not grant them leave to appeal, and so their original sentences will stand.
Neij, Sunde and Lundström had already had their jail sentences reduced by the Court of Appeal, to 10, 8 and 4 months respectively, but they were attempting to get them repealed completely. Svartholm, having not appeared at the previous appeal hearing, had his original sentence of 1 year in prison set permanently.
All the defendants will also still have to pay their share of the 46 mil... »read more

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