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Swedish Court Finalizes Jail Sentence For Pirate Bay Co-Founder

Posted by Soulskill on from the yes-he-looks-very-dangerous dept.

Mightee sends in this excerpt from TorrentFreak: "The Stockholm District Court sentence against Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm was finalized today after he failed to appear at the Court of Appeal. Svartholm, also known as Anakata online, did not appear at the appeal trial last year because he was hospitalized in Cambodia and later went missing. The Court of Appeal has now decided to finalize the initial verdict of one year jail time and a fine of $1.1 million."

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  1. Re:P2P by GameboyRMH · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There's DHT. Tracker sites are nothing more than a convenience nowadays.

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  2. Re:...What was he doing in Cambodia? by migla · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If the founder in question here was making huge numbers off TPB a few years ago (2008, maybe), it didn't show in his wardrobe, hairstyle or choice of place to crash or his mode of transportation.

    I saw him staying with friends in one of the socio-economically crappiest suburbs of Stockholm and taking the subway wherever he was going.

    I'm not saying he wasn't a millionaire, but if he was, it was like some character said in some (iirc) Tzingiz Aitmatov story:
    "I'm just a poor person with lots of money".

    I think this person is a principled person. I might be wrong, but this is the vibe I got from happening to pass him by on the street a few years ago.

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