The Svea Appeals Court agreed with a lower court ruling that found Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstrom guilty of helping users of the site to break Sweden’s copyright law.
However, the appeals court reduced their prison sentences from one year each to between four and 10 months and raised the amount they have to pay in damages to the entertainment industry to 46 million kronor ($6.5 million).
The lower court set damages at 32 million kronor ($4.5 million).
A fourth man convicted by the lower court, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, didn’t appear in the appeals court hearings, citing illness.
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Source: Sapa-AP
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