The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde, who was fined $395000, talks about hackers and pirates (Photo : YouTube / Tech.Science.Society)

The Pirate Bay has appealed their domain dispute to the Supreme Court of Sweden and co-founder Peter Sunde was ordered to pay a massive penalty sum of $395,000 by a Finland court.



After coming back to the original .org domain, The Pirate Bay seems to be busy fending off more legal threats. The torrent site wants to get a hold of their old domains as they could be handed over to the Swedish state.




Often referred to as their hydra approach, the popular torrenting website for pirates has evaded being shut down several times by going from one domain to another. Their previous one was .se which belongs to Sweden.



The Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij has now filed for an appeal to the Swedish Supreme court regarding their domain dispute, TorrentFreak has learned. They want the court to forfeit the prosecutor's request to forfeit their domains namely piratebay.se and thepiratebay.se which almost every pirate on the Internet knows.



It can even be considered that the site made it possible for torrents and peer-to-peer P2P downloading activities to flourish even more. Several torrent sites such as KickAssTorrents and a whole lot more have followed in their footsteps to provide free films, music and video games for downloaders.



Copyright holders have often targeted such torrent sites in an effort to have files taken down. Peter Sunde was even fined $395,000 by a Finland court due to the lawsuits from several music label companies against The Pirate Bay, The Hacker News reported.



What is interesting about the penalty is that Sunde had no idea that there was even a case. Warner Music, EMI, Universal Music and Sony Music have filed the lawsuits against the torrent site via their Finnish divisions.



Sunde is not even a part of The Pirate Bay anymore. He left the torrenting site in 2009 and it is unclear whether he is actually still responsible for all the copyright infringement done by sharing the music files illegally on the site.



The Finnish court ruled that the penalty could even be larger if the illegal file-sharing activities involving the music of about 60 of the artists does not stop. Since Sunde was not present in the court hearings, the default ruling was made.



Only time will tell how the domain dispute with The Pirate Bay and the Swedish Supreme Court goes. Sunde could also file an appeal regarding the massive fine that he thinks he is not responsible for.





