The Pirate Bay Clashes with Book Publishers

The Swedish book publishers organization recently issued a report in which they revealed that 85% of the best-selling books in Sweden are available on The Pirate Bay.

In the report they write that they had to code a specialized tool to scrape the Pirate Bay database for book titles, since there were no ready-made tools available.

Peter Sunde is now arguing that they were breaking the law by scraping the site multiple times without permission. "The Pirate Bay actually owns the copyright to its own database of torrents," Sunde writes on his blog.