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Pirate Bay convicted to appeal

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Lawyers for four men jailed for running file-sharing website The Pirate Bay are calling for a retrial, saying the judge may have had a conflict of interest.

It has emerged that Judge Tomas Norstrom is a member of the Swedish Copyright Association and sits on the board of Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property

But the judge has rejected the conflict of interest accusations.

Stuart Tinworth reports.

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