Several major US studios have filed a lawsuit against The Pirate Bay, seeking a judicial injunction that would shut down the notorious torrent tracker. The move is the latest in the continuing legal saga that surrounds The Pirate Bay. The site's operators were found guilty in Swedish court earlier this year of assisting copyright infringement, and were sentenced to a year in jail and fined 30 million kronor.

The sentence failed to include an injunction forcing the operators to shut the site down. Instead, TPB admins have audaciously stated they will not pay the fines, convinced that "what we do is right." The group first moved for a retrial, suggesting the judge was biased against copyright holders. Though the retrial was denied, the group still plans to appeal the guilty verdict against them. Meanwhile, the site continues to be a thorn in Big Content's side, with the appeals process expected to last at least a couple years.

Big Content isn't, er, content to sit idly by, though, while the legal wheels slowly turn. The studios filing for the injunction—which include Columbia Pictures, Disney, and Warner Bros, among others—want a court order compelling The Pirate Bay to stop facilitating sharing of the respective companies' films and TV shows. "We've been forced to seek a court order demanding that they stop the spreading of these roughly 100 films and television programmes," Monique Wadsted, the studios' legal counsel in Sweden, told The Local. "They've been sentenced to prison for criminal activities but haven’t stopped carrying out those activities."

The suit doesn't seek any damages for copyright infringement, though Wadsted didn't discount that as a future possibility. "What matters [most] is that the spreading of these works is stopped," she told The Local. While Global Gaming Factory has announced plans to buy The Pirate Bay and turn it into a legal downloading service, Wadsted said that the studios she represents can't "wait and see" if that will ever happen or not.

This latest lawsuit is far from the only legal worry for The Pirate Bay. The rights holders behind the original lawsuit have filed their own appeal to both the verdict and the sentencing, insisting that the charge of "infringing copyright" be restored against the defendants and that the fine of 30 million kronor be increased to 100 million. The international music trade group IFPI has also said it plans to seek an injunction against the site. And a Dutch antipiracy group has also sued the site and its operators to block access by Dutch users.