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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."
... isn't just a matter of hacking a random IT firm as the summary may lead one to believe. The firm in question was a contractor for the government, and was handling a number of important census databases, including personal details about people with "protected identity" (people that live under threat of violence, and the like). Through the hacking, this data was released.
Considering that he was already wanted for his involvement in the pirate bay, the hacking was an incredibly stupid thing to do.
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.
Logica used to be a UK company, but since 2012 it is owned by the Canadian CGI group
1) Debatable. He was already in custody. Sweden does not have any extradition agreements with Cambodia. But things moved _very_ quick this time.
2) "Real journalists"? Right. Quite a lot of people care about The Pirate Bay, as is evident in the last few years.
Nonetheless. Why do Sweden take so much care in bringing him home like this? He's been living quite openly in Cambodia for a while. Sweden do not usually act like this. It's not like he's a major threat to, well, anyone.
Anyhow, speculation is the only thing there is, right now. Let's wait a few weeks and see. I'd bet a fair amount on things going not-that-good, for him.
from committing more serious crimes to get money to purchase legal overpriced entertainment not including the money I save also keep my children fed. Now you don't want my children to starve or be sold on the black market, do you?
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
If he did this, then yes he should be paying the penalty as that is a legitimate crime and uncool.. If he just 'promoted piracy' then no he shouldn't be detained, regardless of the 'law' as its a sham.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Em, no in Sweden its not a crime, moron. How dumb are you exaclty that you can't understand that different countries have different legal systems. People feel entitled to infringe copyright as a form of civil disobedience against criminal cartels who bribe corrupt politicians to instigate corrupt persecutions such as the campaign against the Pirate Bay, and to illegally extend copyright indefinitely.
And just to reiterate moron, the Pirate Bay ripped off exactly nothing, they hosted not a single piece of copyrighted material, they simply provided links, so genius, as an example, do you think Slashdot should be prosecuted for infringing the copyright of every story they link to, well do you, dumbass?
Been going on since the dawn of time. How else would you describe Ovid's work?
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Which has nothing to do with whether or not he hacked a company. Just like whether Wikileaks is awesome has nothing to do with whether or not Assange waited until a girl was asleep to have unprotected sex with her when she had spent the evening refusing to do.
No matter how kind you are, German children are kinder.
People feel entitled to infringe copyright as a form of civil disobedience against criminal cartels who bribe corrupt politicians to instigate corrupt persecutions such as the campaign against the Pirate Bay, and to illegally extend copyright indefinitely.
Generally speaking no. People infringe copyright because they'd rather not pay for music and movies if they can get away with getting them for free. They don't have the quasi-moral justification you suggest.
Be it this little bit was wrong/right it really doesn't matter. Copyright exists only because the people allow it. The people have clearly shown (regardless of the law) that they don't support it for one reason or another. This is the masses we are talking about. The willful disregard for copyright by the masses should make one think there is something seriously wrong with the political system. The system is not doing what the people want. It's pretty apparent it is doing the bidding of those with an interest somewhere else. No matter what propaganda you may push copyright should not exist as it is today. You don't need a vote to see it's not what the people want.
The EAW charge is:
Her statement is (skilling past the background details and the whole night of him trying to have unprotected sex with her and her refusing, and him agreeing reluctantly a few times to protected sex and ordering her around; also skipping the aftermath):
Not only does the Assange team not dispute that she had been spending all night refusing unprotected sex with him, but she has a "paper trail" a mile long to prove it, including her ex boyfriend of 2 1/2 years who testified that she was so paranoid of unprotected sex that not only did she not once allow it in their entire relationship, but she even had him get STD tested before *protected* sex.
Oh, I'm sorry, "crikey.com.au" is so much better of a source than the actual police statements and the actual arrest warrant.
Beyond that, you're jumbling everything else up. That was a totally different woman at the party, AA instead of SW. The party was planned in advance. The charges in regards to AA are not rape. At the party she described to one friend the "violent" sex with Assange. This is all straight from the police interviews, including witnes testimony. And please don't get me started on the "how a victim has to behave afterwards for something to be rape". I've known multiple rape victims who *dated* their rapist afterwards to try to make it feel less like rape. I let mine walk me back to my car and even waited for him while he peed in the street. Why? Hell if I know, I was in shock. I didn't exactly have "get raped" on my TODO list for that evening.
No matter how kind you are, German children are kinder.
They don't even store torrent files anymore, as of February 29, 2012. They only have Magnet links (links with hashes), which lets your P2P app find a torrent file based on a hash match (not based on server name/location), which in turn... well, you get the drift.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
You're either a know-nothing or a shill. The Pirate Party is the fourth largest party in Sweden. It reached this size from a membership surge following the conviction of those other Pirate Bay guys. A significant proportion of Swedish people get angry politically active over this kind of thing - we could all learn something from them.