With the sort of ballsiness you’d expect from Kim Dotcom, torrent platform The Pirate Bay are kicking up a fuss over, of all things, alleged copyright infringement .

Earlier this week, anti-piracy campaign group (and long-time The Pirate Bay antagonists) CIAPC redesigned their website in the image of The Pirate Bay, satirising the organisation’s golden ship logo and aping the layout of its homepage. In a deliberately ironic gesture, the Finnish organisation have vowed to take the CIAPC to court on the grounds that copyright theft is a “threat to economies worldwide”:

“We are outraged by this behavior. People must understand what is right and wrong. Stealing material like this on the internet is a threat to economies worldwide. We feel that we must make a statement and therefore we will sue them for copyright infringement. If not even IFPI and their friends can respect copyright, perhaps it’s time to move on?”

The Pirate Bay have been hammered with various bits of legislation in recent years. Four key members of the site were jailed in 2009, and UK ISPs were ordered to block the website in 2012. Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm was also arrested in Cambodia last year after months on the lam, and has reportedly suffered extremely severe treatment behind bars. The offending CIAPC image is below [via International Business Times].