Popular media sharing site Pirate Bay' executives have received yet another "guilty" decree. However, the appeal court has reduced
their prison sentence and at the same time has increased their fines. The four co-founders of the site were originally sentenced to one year in jail. They were also slapped with $3.6 million in fine. Three of its co-founders Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom will now serve a prison term of eight months, ten months and four months respectively. The case of fourth co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm will be reviewed later.
The court has increased their fine to $6.5 million as it decided that the losses due to the site's activities were higher than judged by the district court. The case is the latest one in the series of clampdowns on P2P sites. Earlier this year, file sharing website Limewire was ordered to be shut down by a US district court. The suit against Limewire was instituted in 2006 and the company founder Mark Gorton was held personally liable for the damages.