The Stockholm District Court has ordered that two of the Pirate Bay’s founding members, Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij, now be banned from operating the site.
Despite an order in August that the site’s bandwidth supplier disconnect from the largest torrent site in the world, the Pirate Bay relocated to a new server and has operated as per usual.
But former spokesman Peter Sunde says the ruling “means nothing”, and because the pair live outside Sweden the court has no jurisdiction.
“The Stockholm City Court is located in Stockholm. Stockholm is in Sweden. Swedish borders apply. Frederick and Godfrid live outside Sweden, even outside the EU. The Pirate Bay is outside the EU,” he told SR earlier today.
“How then can the Stockholm District Court, Sweden, get to decide that people abroad must not work on a site in another country?”
Patrick Stafford is a freelance journalist and a former deputy editor of SmartCompany.
