The record labels also requested that the court orders Sunde to cease making the content available to the public, and imposes a conditional fine of (at least) one million euros to reinforce the order.
Furthermore, the record labels requested that Sunde has to pay their legal fees and other expenses, in total 54 786,91 euros plus legal interest.
According to the record labels, the Pirate Bay is very popular among the Finnish file-sharers. They considered that, even with a cautious estimate, a work in the Pirate Bay was within reach of tens of thousands of Finns.
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Sunde did not respond to the lawsuit before the deadline and the court issued a default judgment (no. 16/26496) on 2 June 2016 in the record labels favor. The lawsuit was not, according to the court, manifestly without a basis.
According to chapter 12 section 15 of the Code of Judicial Procedure (4/1734), the party against whom the case has been decided by a judgment by default has the right to appeal it in the court that rendered the judgment. Therefore, there is a chance that this case will go straight back to the District Court of Helsinki.
This is a peculiar case and one would assume that Sunde is going to appeal against the judgment. In 2015, Sunde and other founders of the Pirate Bay were cleared of copyright infringement in a Belgian court. They were accused, inter alia, of criminal copyright infringement because copyright infringing material had been shared through the Pirate Bay between September 2011 and November 2013. They were cleared of all charges after they proved that they had sold the site in 2006 and therefore were no longer active with the site's operations during the period in question.*
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