* **Pirate Bay defendant Peter Sunde speaks to reporters Monday.

Photo: Oscar Swartz.

**Special correspondent *Oscar Swartz reports.

STOCKHOLM — Three entertainment lawyers and a Swedish prosecutor demanded jail time Monday for the four defendants in The Pirate Bay trial, though they couldn't agree on how much. The prosecution is seeking a year in prison for each, while Hollywood is leaning toward the maximum two-year terms.

Defendants Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström face prison and fines as high as $180,000, for alleged contributory copyright infringement. In addition, motion picture and record companies are demanding $13 million in damages for 30 movies and music tracks they claim have been shared by internet users with the help of The Pirate Bay.

Prosecutor Håkan Roswall summed up his version of events in closing arguments Monday: Four criminal conspirators built a website for the purpose of promoting copyright infringement, and earned big bucks selling ad revenue on the site.

Roswall acknowledged that no pirated material was technically stored on or passed through Pirate Bay servers, but he compared the case to past prosecutions of criminal accomplices. In a Supreme Court decision from 1963, he noted, a defendant who held a friend's coat while the friend beat someone up was considered an accomplice.

He also cited a ruling from 1996 in a case where copyrighted material was stored on the servers of the BBS owner, who was found liable. Finally, Roswall looked to a 2000 case involving mp3 files linked from a web page. He argued the case showed that merely linking to a pirated work was enough to sustain a piracy conviction.

Roswall ended his argument by demanding one year in jail for each of the defendants — half of the maximum term. He asked for fines amounting to The Pirate Bay's gross income from advertising revenue on the site. He was able to document the equivalent of $180,000 in income from ad sales on the site, but he argued that the actual numbers are likely quite higher. Roswall claimed the site runs as many as 64 concurrent ads, which he said earned it some 10 million kronor — about $1.2 million.

"That is pure fiction," defendant Fredrik Neij protested in the intermission. "There are four banner spaces, not 64. They have counted different versions of the same ads."

"I was startled to hear the nasty old man settling for one year only, " said co-defendant Gottfrid Svartholm Warg. "I had expected two years. Where are my 10 million kronor, please? I want them, where are they?"

Monique Wadsted of the Motion Pictures Association took the most aggressive stance Monday, and demanded the maximum two years in jail.

The Pirate Bay defendants, she said, had created a "gigantic pirate copying factory" on the internet.

Recording industry lawyer Peter Danowsky asked for "the full market price" for each music download facilitated by The Pirate Bay, plus markups ranging from 100 percent to 20 times the retail price for

"market disturbances" and other injuries. He mentioned alleged Pirate

Bay financier Carl Lundström, a wealthy businessman who provided ISP

hosting for the site, as a specific target for damages.

Henrik Pontén, representing the computer game industry and Swedish films, said he wanted an extra damage award to cover the loss of

"goodwill" sustained by his clients when their pirated content was featured alongside adult services ads on The Pirate Bay.

Pontén also argued for jail time, predicting that a conviction that resulted in just fines and damages would only be another trophy to The

Pirate Bay's crew. The judgment would wind up posted in same section as the years of takedown notices from corporate attorneys around the world, he said.

The trial concludes Tuesday with the defendants' closing statements.