MOSCOW, October 29 (RAPSI) - The Supreme Court of Sweden has refused to take on the case of Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, according to Swedish media outlet The Local.

According to the report, Svartholm Warg appealed to the Supreme Court after having been sentenced to a year in detention on hacking charges, but the Supreme Court in turn refused to accept his appeal.

Svartholm Warg faces the possibility of a six-year jail sentence if convicted by a Danish court in a separate hacking case, according to The Local. He reportedly wrote an open letter to the Swedish authorities urging them not to extradite him to Denmark, arguing that the allegations in both cases are quite similar.

The Pirate Bay (TPB) allows users to exchange digital material such as music, films and computer games.

The project was founded in November 2003 and soon The Pirate Bay became one of the hundred most popular sites in the world. In 2006 the Swedish authorities tried to cut the operation of their torrent tracker short by confiscating their servers, but it started up again soon after the police raid. The Pirate Bay's server was later moved out of Sweden.

In April 2009, the Stockholm District Court sentenced the TPB co-founders to one year in prison for complicity to commit crimes in violation of the Copyright Act and also ordered them, together with the other defendants, to pay joint damages of approximately 3.3 million euros. In November 2010, the Svea Court of Appeal reduced their prison sentences but increased the damages to almost EUR 5 million. The Supreme Court then refused the Pirate Bay co-founders the right to appeal in February 2012.

Two of the co-founders lodged an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) arguing that their convictions had breached their freedom of expression. The ECHR ruled in March of this year that the Swedish courts "had rightly balanced the competing interests at stake - the right of the applicants to receive and impart information and the necessity to protect copyright - when convicting the applicants and therefore rejected their application as manifestly ill-founded."