The European Court of Human Rights also later rejected an appeal. The supreme court of Sweden subsequently refused to hear any further appeal.

On appeal, the jail sentences were reduced, but the damages increased. The district court ruled there was no bias and denied the request for a retrial. The defendants' lawyers appealed to the Svea Court of Appeal together with a request for a retrial in the district court claiming bias on the part of judge Tomas Norström. That's how much I hate the media industry.' They could have the job of picking them up. After the verdict a press conference was held where Sunde held up a handwritten IOU statement claiming that is all the damages he will pay, adding 'Even if I had any money I would rather burn everything I own and not even give them the ashes. Each defendant was sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay damages of 30 million SEK (approximately €2,740,900 or US$3,620,000), to be apportioned among the four defendants.

On 17 April 2009, Sunde and his co-defendants were found to be guilty of 'assisting in making copyright content available' in the Stockholm District Court.

On 31 January 2008, The Pirate Bay operators – Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström ( CEO of The Pirate Bay's former ISP) – were charged with 'assisting copyright infringement'. He was released five months later after having served two-thirds of his eight-month sentence. On, just days after the EU elections and exactly eight years after the police raided The Pirate Bay servers, Sunde was arrested at a farm in Oxie, Malmö to serve his prison sentence for the Pirate Bay case. Peter Sunde ran for European Parliament in 2014 election with the Pirate Party of Finland. Sunde is vegan and speaks Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, English and German. In August 2011 Sunde and fellow Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij launched file-sharing site BayFiles, that aims to legally share. He remained The Pirate Bay's spokesperson until late 2009 (three years after the ownership of the site transferred to Reservella). In 2003 he became a member of Sweden's Piratbyrån (The Pirate Bureau) and a few months later Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm started The Pirate Bay with Sunde as the spokesperson. Personal life īefore the founding of the Pirate Bay, Sunde worked for Siemens. As of April 2017, Sunde has been working on a new venture called Njalla, a privacy oriented domain name registrar. Sunde also participates in the Pirate Party of Finland and describes himself as a socialist. He is an equality advocate and has expressed concerns over issues of centralization of power to the European Union in his blog. He is best known for being a co-founder and ex-spokesperson of The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent search engine. Sunde is of Norwegian and Finnish ancestry. Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (born 13 September 1978), alias brokep, is a Swedish entrepreneur and politician.

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