Pirate Bay co-founders lose appeal

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Josh Halliday
guardian.co.uk, Friday 26 November 2010 14.05 GMT
Pirate Bay's co-founders today lost their appeal against convictions for encouraging illegal filesharing, and have had their collective fine increased by $2m (£1.3m) to $6.5m (£4.1m).

A Stockholm court of appeal ruled that Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstrom remain guilty of helping Pirate Bay users illicitly share copyrighted music and film content via their website.

The Swedish appeals court today reduced each of their prison sentences from one year to between four and 10 months – but raised the amount they have to pay in damages to the entertainment industry to £4.1m from £2.8m.

All four Pirate Bay co-founders were found guilty in April of assisting the distribution of copyrighted content. The fourth co-founder convicted in April, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, did not appear at the appeals court hearings, citing illness.

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