Posted on 04/23/2009 3:30:51 PM PDT by iowamark
Pirate Bay lawyer demands retrial, saying judge was biased in file-sharing case
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- A defense lawyer in the Pirate Bay file-sharing case said Thursday he will demand a retrial after the judge admitted he was a member of copyright protection organizations.
A Stockholm court last week convicted four men behind the notorious Web site of helping others commit copyright violations and gave them one-year prison sentences.
They also were ordered to pay damages of 30 million kronor ($3.6 million) to entertainment companies, including Warner Bros., Sony Music Entertainment, EMI and Columbia Pictures.
Peter Althin, who represented Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde in the case, said he would request a retrial after Judge Tomas Norstrom confirmed Swedish Radio reports that he was a member of two Swedish copyright groups....
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The originating site should get a hit each time the news is viewed/discussed on FR.
They need the hits to get the adds to pay the writers. Its only fair.
My computer has no interest in downloading a torrent of Grade C rap music.
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