Peter Sunde, founder of the Pirate Bay, writes in Wired:

The problem here is that we’re allowing this dying industry to dictate the terms of our democracy. We allow them to dictate new laws (ACTA, SOPA, PIPA, IPRED, IPRED2, TPP, TRIPS, to name a few recent ones) that forbid evolution. If you don’t give up before you’re sued, they corrupt the legal system.

Read the rest to find out about all the conflicts of interest surrounding his conviction.