Former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde will file another appeal at the Swedish Supreme Court. He hopes that after several new EU rulings, the Court will agree that he cannot be held responsible for copyright infringements carried out by users of The Pirate Bay. Thus far, Sunde has yet to serve his eight month jail sentence.

In 2012 Sweden’s Supreme Court announced its decision not to grant leave to appeal in the long-running criminal case against the founders of The Pirate Bay.

This meant that the previously determined jail sentences and fines handed out to Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström would stand.

Sunde and Neij weren’t prepared to accept this decision and the pair decided to take their case to the European Court of Human Rights (EHCR), However, the European Court refused to accept the case and ruled that Swedish courts had made the right decisions.

This rejection meant that most legal options are exhausted for the Pirate Bay founders, but not all doors are closed just yet.

Peter Sunde, the former spokesperson of the site, is preparing to submit his case to the Swedish Supreme Court again. Based on a changing legal climate, Sunde hopes the Court will overturn the eight month jail sentence and fines that were handed down earlier.

With help from several law professors, Sunde’s appeal will be submitted by one of his childhood friends who has taken on the case as part of his legal training. Despite an earlier rejection by the Supreme Court, the legal team believes there’s a good chance the case will be heard now based on recent EU rulings.

“There are new cases from the EU that have proven that I should not have any responsibility, so my case should be re-opened and I should win the case,” Sunde tells TF.

“Of course I never really had a fair trial to begin with,” he adds.

While there are no guarantees that the Supreme Court will take the case, the former Pirate Bay spokesperson will exhaust every option to turn the odds in his favor.

“There’s a chance it will be re-tried, but it’s always hard to say. In any case, it’s a shot worth taking just to prove a point,” Sunde explains.

Thus far two of the four convicted Pirate Bay defendants – Carl Lundström and Gottfrid Svartholm – have served their jail sentences. Sunde and Fredrik Neij should have started their prison time in 2012 but both remain free men.

At the moment Sunde is working hard on several of his startups, including the NSA-proof messenger app Heml.is, for which he raised more than $150,000 through a crowd-funding campaign.