Peter Sunde, the former spokesman for The Pirate Bay has announced he will run in the European Parliament elections next year. Sunde will participate for the Finnish branch of the Pirate Party. The Pirate Party was founded in Sweden in 2006, and in 2009 Christian Engstr..m was the first member of the party elected to European Parliament.Sunde describes himself as’socialist, green and a pirate’ on his blog. He is facing a prison sentence for his involvement with BitTorrent doesn’t seem to concern him very much.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2013/05/the-pirate-bay-co-founder-wants-to.html