Pirate Bay to fight sentence

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.

In what was seen as an important symbolic victory for the movie and recording industry, the Stockholm district court in April 2009 found Fredrik Neij, 32, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 25, Peter Sunde, 32, and Carl Lundstroem, 50, guilty of promoting copyright infringement.

All four were sentenced to a year behind bars and ordered to pay €2.7 million to the movie and recording industry.