{"id":95681,"date":"2016-06-17T14:24:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T12:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=95681"},"modified":"2016-06-20T08:58:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T06:58:38","slug":"pirate-bay-founder-ordered-to-pay-back-r6000000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/95681-pirate-bay-founder-ordered-to-pay-back-r6000000","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Bay founder ordered to pay back R6,000,000"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde has been ordered to pay\u00a0$395,000 (R6,009,154)<\/strong> in damages for music shared through the site, reports TorrentFreak<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Helsinki District Court ordered Sunde to pay the sum to record labels including Sony, Universal, Warner and EMI despite leaving the website in 2009.<\/p>\n

The four music publishers claimed that over 60 of their artists were shared across the site, and despite no claims of Sunde sharing anything personally, the lawsuit holds him responsible.<\/p>\n

Sunde and Pirate Bay co-founders Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm owe large sums of money to copyright holders following adverse decisions in cases dating back years.<\/p>\n

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None of those judgments have been satisfied and there\u2019s no reason to believe this one will be any different.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In recent years, Sunde himself has called for the closing of The Pirate Bay, calling it “a shadow of its former self”.<\/p>\n

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This is why the Pirate Bay co-founder has to pay R6,000,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":85291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[1896,19353,19573,3949,10012],"class_list":["post-95681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","tag-court","tag-fine","tag-peter-sunde","tag-pirate-bay","tag-torrent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95683,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95681\/revisions\/95683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}