Pirate Bay four hit roadblock in appeal

June 11, 2009 The four men convicted for operating file-sharing site the Pirate Bay suffered a further setback this week when they failed to get the case thrown out due to alleged bias by the sentencing judge. Stockholm's district court rejected claims by Pirate Bay lawyers that its judge Tomas Norstrom was biased in the original case because he was a member of several groups that lobby for the rights of copyright holders. Pirate Bay founders, sentenced to a year each in jail in April, are partly basing their appeal on Norstrom's copyright connections and are calling for a retrial.

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