When it comes to the battle between ninjas and pirates, I’m firmly on the side of swashbuckling, parrot-wielding, striped-sock-wearing pirates. Even when they don’t actually weild parrots or sport socks.

But the brave folks at the Pirate Bay seem to be faced right and left these days with international lawsuits for hosting their torrent trove of pirated treasures.

But they wouldn’t be pirates if they didn’t have witty, snarky come-backs to their pursuers — like the following.

Peter Sunde has reportedly said, in response to the latest lawsuit:

“We might be able to pay in Monopoly money. This proves that they are out of touch with reality. They might as well ask for a billion crowns. This is fear-based propaganda; they’re trying to make it sound serious when we link to things that you download from elsewhere,” Sunde told SvD. “We should send them an invoice instead. All research shows that file-sharing grows the market for the movie industry. I go by research; they make it up as they go.”