Founders of The Pirate Bay Sued for $2.5 Million

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry filed a $2.5 million copyright infringement lawsuit against file-sharing tracker site The Pirate Bay on April 1 in Sweden.

In response to the lawsuit, The Pirate Bay co-founder Gorrfrid Warg told The Local that "the record companies can go screw themselves."

The record industry's lawsuit focuses on 24 albums the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry monitored to calculate damages according to the number of times they were illegally downloaded.
The Pirate Bay co-founders Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström also were named in the suit, which also mentions nine films and four video games made available through the site.

"This damages (sic) now being demanded are based on the albums which the prosecutor has included in his indictment," said Lars Gustafsson, head of the Swedish chapter of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. "The injury to the record companies, the artists and the copyright holders caused by The Pirate Bay's illegal activity is many times greater."
The Pirate Bay's founders also face previously filed criminal charges of being accessories to copyright infringement.