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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Detained In Sweden

Posted by Soulskill on from the stockholm-syndrome dept.

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."

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  1. The Logica hacking ... by bakuun · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... 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.

    1. Re:The Logica hacking ... by ThatsMyNick · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

  2. Weird by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  3. No, get *your* facts straight by Rei · · Score: 5, Informative

    The EAW charge is:

    4. On 17th August 2010, in the home of the injured party [name given] in Enkoping, Assange deliberately consummated sexual intercourse with her by improperly exploiting that she, due to sleep, was in a helpless state. It is an aggravating circumstance that Assange, who was aware that it was the expressed wish of the injured party and a prerequisite of sexual intercourse that a condom be used, still consummated unprotected sexual intercourse with her. The sexual act was designed to violate the injured party’s sexual integrity.

    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):

    They dozed off and she awoke and felt him penetrating her. She immediately asked, “Are you wearing anything?”, to which he replied, “You”. She said to him: “You better not have HIV”, and he replied, “Of course not”. “She felt that it was too late. He was already inside her and she let him continue. She didn’t have the energy to tell him one more time. She had gone on and on about condoms all night long. She has never had unprotected sex before.

    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.

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    1. Re:No, get *your* facts straight by Joce640k · · Score: 4, Interesting

      You got raped, my condolences, but what you endured or how you felt is completeley irrelevant to the Assange case.

      It was funny how Assange became a "rapist" and a "violent sex offender" only AFTER the two ladies learnt Assange had sex with both.

      When they went to the police they were worried about catching AIDS, not about having been 'raped'. They wanted to know if there was any way they could force Julian Assange to take an AIDS test.

      The first prosecutor let Julian Assange go and he left the country. That's when somebody high up had an "Aha!" monent and figured out they could use this as a way to get Julian Assange in to Sweden and ship him to the USA from there using the "temporary surrender" law. A new prosecutor was appointed and the rest is history.

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