The French Pirate Party historical channel gives all its support to the administrators of the The Pirate Bay website, sentenced to a year of jail and told to pay 3 million Euro of damages in unworthy conditions of a State of law.

The FPPch condemns firmly the interference of copyright lobbies in state justice and democratic process.

After the revelation of links between the judge Thomas Norström and the intellectual property lobbies, FPPch asks the cancellation of The Pirate Bay sentence according to the Right of a fair trial.

The membership of the Svenska föreningen för upphovsrätt (Swedish association for the Copyright), and being councilman of Svenska föreningen för industriellt rättsskydd (Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property) is obviously not compatible with the function of judge in The Pirate Bay lawsuit, because of a conflict of interest.

The judge Norström, by being member of these lobbies as are the counsels for the prosecution Henrik Pontén, Peter Danowsky and Monica Wadsted, who represented the disc and movie industry during all litigation, is corrupted.

Any other decision than the cancellation of this judgment would be a denial of justice and democracy.

The Pirate Party French-historical channel makes common cause with the Swedish Pirate Party in their battle for the broadcasting of culture to all.

The FPPch calls all actors of the web and political life to unite at European level to report the corruption of parliamentarians and judges by lobbies.

Finally, FPPch calls all French web-users to rally against the Hadopi law and to express their opposition in the whole country on Saturday, April 25th.