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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:...What was he doing in Cambodia? by Skarecrow77 · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's the good thing about America, we don't need to leave here unless we really want to, we've already got pretty much everything here. Cubans? we've got those. They're in Miami. Iranians? (scuse me, "Persians"), we've got those all over the place. I grew up down the street from two Persian families. Russians? Mexicans? Vietnamese? Sure! Any please in the world that its' not really "safe" (well, for an american) to travel to, we've already got them here, and chances are that there's a major metropolitan area with a section devoted to any given ethnicity.