Is it a conflict of interest? The founders of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay were in the dock for breaking copyright law, and the judge in the case, Tomas Norström, was a member of the Swedish Copyright Association and sits on the board of Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property.
However, his association with those bodies wasn’t revealed until this week, after the verdict – a year in jail for each of the four men and a $4.5 million fine – had been handed down.
Now lawyers for The Pirate Bay are demanding a retrial, claiming the judge had a conflict of interest.
