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Maybe not cave art, but it is supposed to be 1100 years old. The article is in Swedish, but the picture of Mickey Mouse is not.

It is especially interesting since here in sweden, there is no reporting about refused opportunities to question Assange in the UK, and there is no talk about why Sweden would not offer guarantees of no extradiction to the US.

Oh there is. By TT. Republished in all major newspapers. I'm somewhat surprised you've missed it.

http://www.sydsvenskan.se/varlden/intensiv-diplomati-i-assange-fall
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article15268665.ab

etc

Perhaps. But the story has been covered by every major Swedish newspaper the last few days.

Svenska Dagbladet
Dagens Nyheter
Göteborgsposten
Sydsvenskan

It's the Chancellor of Justice that is being quoted...

Another Swedish newspaper (Sydsvenskan) has a well written article in english here

Original source

Fucking rumour starters at it once more.

Citation, please. (Bold text highlighted by me for clarity as to what I'm referring to.)
Preferably not from either "side" but from a reputable and verifiable source.
(In short: I don't believe you. Not one bit. Also, to be clear: The prosecution in the infamous court case at no time managed to present any evidence whatsoever of any profits being made at all, not to mention of any significance. So as I said. I don't believe you. But if you can produce some credible evidence, I might reconsider. Good luck.)

Well if you immediately rule out something from one "side" or the other, you're going to make it very difficult for yourself to find any figures at all. But rather than get into an argument with you on who it is acceptable to believe or not, the relevant point of the above is that it is expensive to run a setup as big as TPB. And in this case, TPB themselves will support my argument since their own defense in court stated that their running costs were something in the order of US$110,000p/a (your citation). If you're going to break even with those sorts of running costs, you need to be bringing in a sizable income which brings us back to my original point - not many people are going to be risking those sorts of sums of money when the law may shut them down at any minute. Which returns us to what I've been saying: small torrent sites, not big operations like TPB. I suspect we'll see the end of Mininova in its current form soon enough, though various micro-novas will pop up afterwards, I'm guessing.

Any word on how they're doing in the polls?

Sense of proportion - Copyright infringement: Max 3 years, Murder - 25 to Life. I see a sense of proportion

from what I've found in a quick search (not that familiar with the Swedish penalty ranges) the penalty for murder in Sweden is 10 years to life - where life isn't life but often around 14 years inside. Of a 10 year penalty 6-7 is typically actually served.
I'd be very surprised if this filesharer gets rprison time - the case is about one movie, not for profit.. What would someone selling burned CDs/DVDs of software get? Or in true large scale operations where thay actually press the discs in thousands? While this DA said "we have to investigate everyhing reported", another one (in Malmö), is apparently of a differing view and declines to investigate as the "penalty value" is too low... article in the paper Sydsvenskan: http://w1.sydsvenskan.se/Article.jsp?article=10113 163