Pirate Bay cofounder to run for European Parliament

Pirate Bay cofounder Peter Sunde is apparently tired of being accused of breaking the law, so now he wants to start making the law instead. TorrentFreak reports that Sunde is planning to run for the European Parliament next year as a candidate for Finland’s Pirate Party. Sunde is hoping to follow in the footsteps of the Swedish Pirate Party that now has two members as elected European members of Parliament.

The Pirate Party cofounder tells TorrentFreak that he predictably plans to focus on intellectual property issues as a candidate and says that “non-commercial file sharing should of course become legal and protected, and must re-think copyright all together” since “copyright is not the thing that makes artists money, it’s only for their brokers and distributors.”

Sunde had previously served an eight-month prison sentence after being convicted in 2009 of distributing copyrighted material through The Pirate Bay file-sharing website.

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