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Pirate Bay Founders Banned From Running The Site:

In August the bandwidth supplier to The Pirate Bay was ordered by a court to disconnect the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker from the Internet.

Within hours the site had relocated to a new host, which immediately received similar threats. After periods of downtime, the Pirate Bay eventually regained stability in recent days.

Although these attempts failed, the authorities weren’t about to give up in their quest to shut down the site.

The Stockholm District Court has now ordered that two of the site’s founder members – Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij – are now banned from operating the site. Failure to comply with the court’s decision will result in fines of 500,000 kronor ($71,600) each.

Ex-Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde, who appears to be excluded from the decision, is notably annoyed, noting that neither the founders nor the site are located in Sweden.

‘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.

‘How then can the Stockholm District Court, Sweden, get to decide that people abroad must not work on a site in another country?’

This is a breaking news story, to be updated