In a blog post, Mr. Sunde cited time constraints for the departure. “I want to build something new and I want to focus my energy in a different direction. I have projects waiting to be finished, a book is waiting to be finalized and many more books are waiting to be read,” he wrote. “I am simply leaving a role in order to be a person instead.”

Pirate Bay has been enmeshed in legal disputes in recent weeks, ordered to shut down in the Netherlands and sued in Italy. Swedish firm Global Gaming Factory X has offered to buy the service for 60 million Swedish kronor ($7.8 million).

Mr. Sunde has been the public face of the Pirate Bay amid its battles with anti-piracy groups. After a Swedish court found him and three other co-founders guilty of copyright infringement in April, he appeared in an online video holding a sign that said “I owe you 31 million Swedish (kronor),” then “J/K.” He’s used Twitter to express his feelings on the Dutch lawsuit, saying that the founders can’t comply with its demands, nor can they pay the fines.

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