Pirate Bay is a widely popular file-sharing community, and earlier this year the site was sentenced to pay major labels $675,000 to compensate artists for royalties lost via illegal downloading. Regardless of the preconceived notin of this action, the labels have decided to use Pirate Bay’s money in new anti-piracy campaigns instead of giving a dime to any artists. Check out part of an article discussing the matter below by clicking “Read More.”

In other words, the money that the Court awarded to compensate artists and rightsholders for their losses is not going to the artists at all. Instead, the labels will simply hand it over to IFPI for their ongoing anti-piracy efforts, which we documented in detail earlier this week.

According to former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde, one of the people convicted in the case, this shows who the real “thieves” are.

“Regarding the issue that they’ve already divvied up the loot, it’s always fun to see that they call it ‘recovered money’ (i.e. money they’ve lost) but that they’re not going to give the artists in question any of it,” Sunde told TorrentFreak.