It is the end of the line for Pirate Bay founders Peter Sunde Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, and Carl Lundstrom.
Make whatever joke you want about the four piracy kings being made to walk the plank, live with the sharks, abandon ship, etc. They’ll be spending a lot of time behind bars after the Supreme Court in Sweden announced it will not agree to hear an appeal in their case.
The group had already been found guilty of abetting copyright infringement in 2009. Then, in 2010 they were granted an appeals case in their native country, but the Swedish Appeals Court sided with the earlier ruling.
All four wanted to contest the decision all the way to Sweden’s highest court, but that won’t happen. This means their chances are over, and their fine of 46 million kronor ($6.7 million) is due. Per the original ruling, the four also face a year in prison.
Lundstrom’s lawyer Per E Samuelsson was quoted by Timeas saying he was “disappointed that the court is so uninterested in dissecting and analyzing the legal twists and turns of one of the world’s most high-profile legal cases of all time.”
Although the sentences are now set in stone, all four do still have the option to appeal all the way to the conintent-wide European Court of Justice.
Sunde immediately posted a message to his blog, saying, “I’m proud as hell of what I’ve done and I would not change my involvement in any way. I actually think I could have done much more for the fight. And I will.”
