The defense lawyer in the Pirate Bay file-sharing case says he will demand a retrial after the judge admitted he was a member of copyright-protection organizations.A Stockholm court last week convicted four men behind the Web site of helping others commit copyright violations and gave them one-year prison sentences. They also were ordered to pay damages $3.6 million to entertainment companies.

Peter Althin, who represented Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde in the case, said he would request a retrial after Judge Tomas Norstrom confirmed Swedish Radio reports that he was a member of two Swedish copyright groups. Althin said that constituted a conflict of interest, especially considering that three people who represented the entertainment industry during the trial also held membership in one of the organizations.

Judge Norstrom acknowledged to Swedish Radio that he was a member of The Swedish Association for Copyright, as well as a board member of the Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property. He also said he has worked alongside Monica Wadsted — who represented the American movie industry in the trial — to solve disputes related to Internet domain names. However, he rejected that there was any conflict of interest.

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