A Swedish appeals court has ruled that the judge who sentenced four men to prison for operating file-sharing site The Pirate Bay made the decision without bias despite his membership in several copyright protection organizations.

According to local news reports, lawyers for the men lost their plea for a retrial on the basis that judge Tomas Norstrom may have been biased when he gave each of the four defendants a year’s prison sentence and ordered them to pay a total of roughly $3.57 million in fines.

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