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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Detained In Sweden
wiredmikey writes "The co-founder of The Pirate Bay filesharing website was detained in Sweden on Friday, days after his deportation from Cambodia, officials said. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 27, faces a one-year prison sentence for promoting copyright infringement in his home country. His current detention is for an investigation into his involvement in the hacking of a Swedish IT firm named Logica. He was arrested in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh on August 30 at Stockholm's behest and expelled late on Monday."
The whole thing is surrounded by weird things. At the same time he arrived in Sweden the (completely) new charge was made public. Also the court hearing was magically timed to occur at exactly the same time as the two journalists that was released from Ethiopia (major event in Sweden), thus hardly no journalists where at Wargs hearing.
Some swedish newspapers have printed articles about it, but nothing major. They all seem perplexed, and are suspicious about it too. Conspiracies, american interests and so on. I guess Gottfrid will have a really hard time from now on. My guess is that he will not be released for many years.
Innocent until proven guilty only in the eyes of the law. So unless I am called to be part of the jury (which is unlikely as I live in different country), I can judge him any way I want. I would not act on it, but I would definitely judge.