Pirate Bay founders sent summons via Twitter

June 25, 2009 COLOGNE, Germany -- A Dutch entertainment industry group has demanded Swedish file-sharing site The Pirate Bay be shut down in the Netherlands and says Pirate Bay founders have been sent their court summons via Twitter and Facebook. Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN said it used the social networking sites to deliver the court summons as it was unable to pinpoint the exact location of Pirate Bay founders Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg. In April, a Swedish district court found the three, along with Carl Lundstrom, guilty of assisting copyright infringement and sentenced them to 1 year in prison and some $3.8 million in fines.

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