FOUR founders and financiers of filesharing site The Pirate Bay, who last year were sentenced to a year in prison, opened their appeal bid to get the verdict overturned in Stockholm yesterday.

FOUR men behind the world famous file-sharing site Pirate Bay were convicted yesterday of breaking Sweden’s copyright law by helping millions of users freely download music, movies and computer games on the internet.

The entertainment industry won round one in a legal battle against a hugely popular internet music, games and film-sharing site today when four men accused of running it were jailed for a year.

Four men linked to the popular Pirate Bay file-sharing site were jailed today after being convicted of breaking copyright law.

An anti-piracy official revealed today that Swedish police have cracked down on illegal file-sharing by seizing a giant computer server in a raid on a flat in Stockholm.

Four men behind the popular file-sharing website The Pirate Bay went on trial today accused of helping millions of users worldwide break copyright law.