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Gottfrid Svartholm Warg Arrested In Cambodia

Posted by timothy on from the hear-the-spiders-are-delicious dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, alias "anakata," was arrested two days ago (Original, Swedish) in Pnohm Pehn, Cambodia and may soon be facing extradition to Sweden (alternate sources: Aftonbladet (Swedish), IDG (Swedish)). He was sentenced to one year in prison for his involvement in The Pirate Bay in 2009 and failed to appear at the prison to serve his sentence. On a related note, the domain freeanakata.se seems to have been registered today although it currently isn't resolving."

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  1. Sweden in general by IamGarageGuy+2 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It appears to me that Sweden is becoming the centre of internet freedom battles. Is this geographical, cultural,legal or just luck of the draw?

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    1. Re:Sweden in general by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 3, Interesting

      We should start a campaign to extradite everyone to Sweden. I think it would be a great protest movement.

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    2. Re:Sweden in general by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Pinochet was a US puppet, put in place on September 11, 1973. And the 3000 Chileans were killed by US people. (Yeah, they probably conveniently leave that out in US history education.)