A Swedish appeals court has slashed the jail sentence of Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg in half. In June, Svartholm Warg was sentenced to two years behind bars for his alleged involvement in several high-profile hacks. But the appeals court dismissed convictions stemming from a hack against Nordea bank, lowering Svartholm Warg's prison stay to one year (in addition to the time he's already served). Svartholm had originally pled innocent to those charges, arguing that someone else had remotely used his computer to carry out the attack. Despite a lack of evidence proving as much, the court found that such a scenario couldn't be ruled out.
Svartholm Warg's appeal didn't go entirely in his favor, though; the court upheld...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/25/4769320/court-reduces-prison-sentence-of-pirate-bay-co-founder-one-year
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