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BBC News, Monday, June 29, 2009, 12:27 PM
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The four men behind The Pirate Bay, who were found guilty of promoting copyright infringement in April, have been denied a request for a retrial, the BBC reports, after a Swedish court said that the affiliation with several copyright protection groups by one of the presiding judges did not constitute a bias. However, the court of appeal said Judge Tomas Norstrom should have declared that he was a member of the Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and the Swedish Copyright Association before the case went to trial.
"The fact that he failed to shed light on this does not however mean that there was any wrongdoing during the proceedings that would require a retrial," the court said in a statement. "This was not a case of bias." Now, no appeal is allowed against the judgment.
In April, the court found them guilty of operating a service when they knew users were being pointed to copyrighted material. The Pirate Bay defended itself saying that it did not infringe copyright because none of the pirated material is stored on its servers. The four men operating the service were sentenced to 1 year in jail and told to pay damages of around $2 million to entertainment companies like Warner Bros and Sony Music Entertainment.
Read the whole story at BBC News.
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