Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde is planning to run for the European Parliament in 2014.

The Pirate Bay has opened two new gateways to its internal network in order to shield its current Internet provider, the Swedish Pirate Party, which had been threatened with legal action if it did not stop providing Internet access to the torrent search site by Tuesday.

The Swedish Pirate Party faces a lawsuit if it does not stop providing Internet access to The Pirate Bay file-sharing site by next Tuesday.

A new anti-film piracy group has hit the headlines over its intention to take legal action against individual alleged copyright infringers on behalf of film studios. But some observers have questioned the efficacy of this tactic in deterring piracy and whether this is just a ploy for studios – and their lawyers - to make an easy buck.

Police in Germany have confiscated servers belonging to the Pirate Party as part of a criminal investigation.

Internet rights advocacy groups have savaged a report that lists the dire economic consequences of Internet piracy.

The Pirate Party won't contest the Federal Election on August 21.

The anti-filter and pro-filter camps have put in their two cents on the Federal Government’s decision to delay the mandatory Internet clean-feed.

Sweden's Pirate Party won 7.13 percent of the vote in elections earlier this month. Its campaign for the respect of privacy, the reform of copyright law and the abolition of the patent system earned it a seat in the European Parliament, and it may yet gain another seat there, if planned changes to the number of seats attributed to each country win approval.