Pirate Bay lobs new appeal for retrial

Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde said in a blog posting on Monday that the four defendants would in the coming week file appeals asking officials to re-examine the initial police investigation of the case.

Sunde suggested that one of the officers investigating the case had been persuaded by the plaintiffs in the case to file charges against the torrent search engine.

"Too many people have ties to our opponents and has been proven to be on the pay-roll or promised to become employed in the future," wrote Sunde.

"We want everything to be in the eye of the public so that we can get help to see that everything is correct."

The new appeal comes in the wake of calls for a re-trial after the presiding judge in the case was found to be a member of two Swedish copyright organizations. Lawyers in the case argued that the situation posed a clear conflict of interest.

Sunde's vow for an appeal comes as another Pirate Bay operator was tied to a protest movement against the case. The Blog Pirate site posted a plan said to be devised by Gottfrid Svartholm.

The so-called 'distributed denial of dollars' protest would have users pay off the site's 30 million SEK through a series of 1 SEK (8 pence) micropayments to Danowsky and Partners, the Swdish law firm which prosecuted the case for the copyright groups.

The site suggested that by flooding the firm with the small payments, the processing costs would eventually outweigh the gains from collecting damages in the case.