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Pirate Bay Judge's Copyright Interests Prompt Call for Retrial

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 23, 2009 - 8:45am.
Stockholm, Sweden - After a Swedish national radio show reported that the judge who sentenced the operators of file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay to a year in prison has connections with several pro-copyright groups, defense lawyers have called for a mistrial, TorrentFreak reports. Judge Tomas Norstrom sits on the board of the Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property, and is a member of the Swedish Association of Copyright -- whose membership also includes Henrik Ponten, of the Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau; movie industry lawyer Monique Wadsted; and Peter Danowsky, of the record label trade group IFPI.
tags: Law | Lawsuits | P2P | Music | Copyright | IFPI | The Pirate Bay | Peter Sunde | Tomas Norstrom |