Three of The Pirate Bay's founders have lost an appeal against their prison sentences in a Swedish court.
Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström appealed their one-year jail sentences, which were doled out last year after they were found guilty of helping to make copyright material available via the torrent site.
While the appeals court didn't overturn the original guilty verdict, it did cut their sentences. Neij will now serve 10 months, Sunde will serve eight, and Lundström four.
The fourth founder of the site, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, was too ill to attend court, so his sentence remains unchanged until his own appeal can be heard.
While the court cut their jail time, it bumped up the fine from 32 million kronor to 46 million kronor.
At the time of his conviction, Sunde said: "We can't pay and we wouldn't pay. Even if I had the money I would rather burn everything I owned, and I wouldn't even give them the ashes."
The Pirate Bay group can still appeal to Sweden's Supreme Court, but haven't yet said if they plan to do so.
This article originally appeared at pcpro.co.uk
