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Pirate Bay Co-Founder In Solitary Confinement
pigrabbitbear writes "Things aren't looking awesome for Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm, who's currently under lock and key in a newly built jail about 15 minutes north of Stockholm. Svartholm's mother Kristina says that her 28-year-old son is being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day without any human contact other than his interactions with the guards. It's been nearly two months since Svartholm was arrested in Cambodia, where he'd been living for years, and extradited back to Sweden, where he's due to spend a year behind bars and pay a $1.1 million fine for copyright offenses related to his role at the Pirate Bay. But that's not why Sweden's being so tough on him in prison. Authorities believe he may have played a role in the hacking of Logica, a Swedish technology company with ties to the country's tax authorities. They haven't charged him with any crimes yet in that case, however."
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His booking papers only cite pirate bay activities.
If it was because of hacking, then his paperwork damn well should say so. The fact that it doesn't means that this is nothing but an attempt to use allegations of hacking as an excuse.
Until someone puts their ass on the line and signs a piece of paper under oath as to why he's locked up, I'm not going to believe a word they say.
Torrents are the modern day The Library of Alexandria.
By law, every book and scroll was copied.
It was critical for the development of civilization.
A golden age lasted until the christians and muslims destroyed it.
Don't let the plutocrats destroy our library!
Plenty of "civilized" governments exploit the fact that the population is largely unaware of the psychological effects of extended isolation.
Yeah, it destroys a person, utterly and completely. A few months of it a person can endure; But a year? Years? When they finally open that door, there won't be anything left but meat. The person will have long ago left. It's disgusting and inhumane. A bullet would be more compassionate.
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They can hold him for a year for the Pirate Bay conviction possibly longer if they add on time for non payment of fines. However they think he was involved in hacking Logica but as yet they can't prove it. Most people break eventually in solitary and will say and do anything to get out of it. They probably plan on leaving him there for his whole sentence "for his own safety" unless he confesses.
Solitary confinement isn't same as in US prisons. First of all he isn't in a prison where it would be strange if he was held in solitary confinement. Everyone who gets 'häktad' is held in solitary confinement or the "red" ward until the prosecutor says otherwise or he is officially charged (i.e. "förundersökningssekretess" is released).
I've been myself confined in solitary for 2 months, where 2 weeks were voluntary. It's good times and way better than sharing a cell with some douche bags and being able to relax because the psycho in your cell is about to get a psychosis and can't take being locked in.
In solitary confinement you get bed, PRIVACY, tv (if officially charged, or prosecutor allows i.e. after giving your sworn statement), table, toilet, water, foodstuff, books and library visit, paper and pen, access to phone (with permission of prosecutor), training room, shower, and so on. It's not the american "solitary confinement" nor is it to punish you, it's way more costly, and they try to put you into "GREEN" ward asap. After that you'll be sent to prison where there is place for you, and if you are unlucky, you get to be 3 or more in one cell.
There is a different type of solitary confinement that I doubt Gottfried is put in, and they usually only exist in prisons and people dangerous to themselves.
BTW, I never been to prison. Just accused of crap. Gottfried should be happy he is put in "häkte" because when he goes to prison he'll love the solitary confinement benefits. Only negative is of course that you only get to meet the wardens and a few people the prosecutor wetted before letting them see you (and they can be friends not necessarily family).
No, he made millions of dollars allowing other people to download music/movies/games/software that other people made and own the rights to
Hm...made millions of dollars on creative work that other people made and have copyrights on...where have I heard that before...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
Funny how there was no torture^H^H^H^Hsolitary confinement for the people responsible for that.
Oh, he was a brazen prick while he did it, too
Otherwise known as a hero:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_jobs
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It's standard treatment in Sweden. If the crime is non-trivial, the attorney almost always requests solitary confinement. The reason is to prevent the accused from interfering with the criminal investigation, but I think at least partly it's done in order to break the accused, helping the interrogations.
Sweden has been criticized by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture for this practice, but nothing seems to change.
I'd say that I am not that proud of our judicial system right now. This practice, the not-so-competent handling of Assange, the recent turn of events relating to a convicted serial killer (Tomas Quick) being found innocent for crime after crime, after withdrawing his own confessions, and the follow-up revelations of a closed boys-club judicial system - these events makes me ashamed and worried.
It's not necessarily attributed to malice, but it is certainly incompetence combined with the attitude among Swedish bureaucrats that the government is always right, always efficient, and certainly *never* wrong.
Solitary confinement doesn't technically fall under 'torture', so they can leave him there for 20 years if they want, going absolutely insane due to the complete lack of stimulus. But it's not torture, oh no. It will absolutely destroy his mind, and ruin the rest of his life, but it's not torture, so it's all fine and good and legitimate.
Isn't the legal system wonderful.
I've known Kevin for years. He did not spend 5 years in solitary. He spent 8 months in solitary and it was over a dispute about whether to sign a document that, among other things, would allow them to restrict his telephone privileges (yes, there was actual concerns that he had the ability to hack the telco system - but not start a nuclear war.) He spent the vast majority of his time in general population awaiting trail.
The "moral" of the story is Assange is right, Sweden is the USA's bitch and they jump through the hoops like a good doggie. Think actual Swedish content was even one half of one percent of TPB? Nope but he pissed off the media cartels which along with the other megacorps own the USA so they just told their pitbulls at the state dept "Make sure they fuck him hard" and wadda ya know? that's what they are doing.
Sigh...I remember when extradition was actually a big deal, when only murderers and organized criminals had to worry about it, but now every. country. on. the. planet. has to follow the USA's rules and jump through the hoops, because God fucking forbid our media cartels have to get with the 21st century and use new models of business, why God that would be horrible!
Just think, if the cartels would have been in place at the turn of the 20th century you'd be forced to this very day to buy a saddle and buggywhip for every person riding in a vehicle. I mean how dare they have to change when they could just buy the laws?
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.