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Swedish appeals court reduces sentence for Pirate Bay founder Sep 25th 2013, 12:45 Tweet Share this Email Print Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, the co-founder of Pirate bay, is pictured in Stockholm, February 16, 2009. Credit: Reuters/Bertil Ericson/Scanpix Sweden STOCKHOLM | Wed Sep 25, 2013 8:45am EDT STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish appeals court on Wednesday reduced a hacking case sentence for a founder of file-sharing website Pirate Bay to one year, saying it could not be proved he had broken into Nordic bank Nordea's mainframe computer himself. A district court in June sentenced Gottfrid Svartholm Warg to two years in jail for hacking into computers at a company that manages data for Swedish authorities, and into Nordea's mainframe and making illegal cash transfers through it. But the Svea Court of Appeal dismissed the charges relating to Nordea, saying Warg's computer could possibly have been operated remotely in that incident. Warg, a 28-year-old Swede, was extradited to Sweden last year from Cambodia to begin a separate one-year jail sentence, incurred when he was convicted in 2009 of Internet piracy along with other co-founders of Pirate Bay. (Reporting by Anna Ringstrom; Editing by Alistair Lyon) Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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