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Pirate Bay Founder Sentenced To Jail
An anonymous reader writes "Gottfrid Swartholm Warg — known also as Anakata — was on June 20th sentenced to two years imprisonment for data breaches and aggravated fraud by the District Court of Nacka in his native Sweden. It is unclear at this time wether the decision will be appealed to a higher court. Prison time in Sweden is generally served for two thirds of the time sentenced, if the person behaves well and the court finds no reason to abstain from the norm. Also, time spent in pre-trial confinement (swe: 'häkte') is deducted from the time sentenced. Warg was arrested in Cambodia in september of 2012, transferred to Sweden and ordered by court to remain in pre-trial confinement from September 14th, 2012."
2/3 of 2 years is 16 months. He's been held for 9 months already, so he has another 7 to go (until Jan 2014).
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
I find it amusing that while all this is going on, nobody is able to shut it down.
Which is great because that's where I like to search for my Linux ISO images.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... time... to... die...
Another person who majorly irked the moneyed ruling class. I am sure that these vaguely related crimes were not used as a bludgeon to achieve revenge.
They're nicer than most low end motels/hotels in the states, its ridiculous!
He isn't going to jail for running TPB, but instead for doing something clearly illegal and just uncool in general. I don't see a problem with it.
The old lesson learned again: Don't go high profile and piss off the man if you have skeletons in your closet.
In London during the riots, a man was sentenced to six months jail for stealing a bottle of water.
However, the bankers crash the economy, cost taxpayers £130 billion pounds, threw millions out of work due to their negligence and criminality -- and NOONE has gone to jail. In America, the problem is made worse because it's actually Obama Administration policy to not prosecute bankers for fraud.
/usr/sbin/chroot /jail sleep 1892160000
I still find it hilarious that one of the things that is ALWAYS at the top of the most popular list is GTA san andreas.
Always makes me giggle to think of ALL those newer games out there.. Still losing in popularity to an 8 year old game.
It's
1) Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, not Swartholm
2) whether, not wether
Not every submission is perfect but it's your fucking job to fix them! DO YOUR WORK BITCHES!
This is a low blow from the establishment. Granted, Gottfrid comes off as a deranged, drug-addled terrorist occasionally, but he is at least partially responsible for the underpinnings of a true technological and cultural revolution. I am a security professional and as pissed as I get when some random asshole or DDOS (or me) brings down a datacenter of mine, I'm more upset with myself and my team for allowing that unsafe condition to exist in the first place. We have to be right all the time and they have to be right once. This is not a new concept. These companies and especially government organizations should be expected to assume the same level of due diligence, if not FAR more, than everyone else. They just had the sensitive data just sitting there to take. I'm not an anarchist and I believe completely in personal responsibility but there should be some comparative negligence that comes into play here. Yeah, sure, Gottfrid allegedly did it, but Logica and Nordea failed in protecting their customers' sensitive interests.
Swedish prisons are not like u.s prisons. Their clean, cells are bigger than most ny manhattan 1 bedroom apartments, they have tv's in each cell. Basically, the guy is in a motel.
oh, and some other notes: /AC
2 years imprisonment is the maximum penalty stipulated by law for the crimes Warg's been convicted for.
Swedish sentencing terms are not cumulative (no 999 years ridiculousness) so he will only serve a maximum of two years in prison for crimes that he has been convicted for in this particular trial, if the conviction stands.
you cant destroy the pirate bay by simply arresting its founders, or any other torrent tracking system for that matter. its ludicrous.
the internet as a system and community enacts a sort of triage when this happens, and its geometrically faster than the litigation the **aa tends to favour.
One could argue rather convincingly that the advent of the magnet link was the downfall of the tradtional model of litigating peer-to-peer to death. Call me a cheerleader, but im sure Anakata understands that seven months of involuntary detention is no more an inconvenience than being roped into a particularly bad vodaphone contract.
Good people go to bed earlier.
And of course, they don't lie, not even by technicality, do they. Like "We have no ability to look at everyone's emails (because we don't have enough time to look at them all, we DO, however, have the ability to look at anyone's)".
That's the kind of comment I was hoping for.
Thank you.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... time... to... die...
Wow, the Telcos really are getting worse day by day.
This conviction is completely orthogonal to TPB.
With phone contracts you only get shafted metaphorically. In prison on the other hand...
First prison here:
http://www.takepart.com/photos/worlds-most-luxurious-prisons
Is the one I thought about in:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3887171&cid=44060109
Anyone have the jail address so we can send him care packages?
I know he'd love to receive some reading material, hygiene products, junk food... etc. I think there are lots of posts on prisonlinks.com that talk about what you can and can't send a prisoner in the USA but I'm not sure about Sweden.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
We all should show support for free speech and protest Anakata's imprisonment. Since the main reasons he is jailed are the **AA, and the "Mickey Mouse Forever" Act, I thought we could express our sentiment by pissing on Sonny Bono's grave:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.8197212,-116.4417191&spn=0.004205,0.005249
I would have also suggested the same for Jack Valenti, however he is buried in Arlington National Cemetery so that might result in jail.
This could be a great travel destination for those that value free speech.
* Carthago Delenda Est *
Yea cause they're really after TBP here. The dude committed an obvious UNRELATED crime, one even the groupthink morons here shouldn't be able to defend. He's got a reasonable jail sentence (probably another 7 months given what he's already served). Get over it.
I never liked Herman's Hermits anyway.
Almost all sentences in municipal court (Tingsrätten) except really simple cases like traffic violations are always tried in higher a higher (Hovrätten). More or less automatically if one part doesn't agree with it (and if one part doesn't the other part also appeals).
His defense in this case is/was that there were open servers anyone of his "friends/acqauntinces/hacker community" could login to. (I think is was more or less a lab-server open for anybody who wanted access).
I personally think it's more probable than not that he actually isn't the one who did the intrusion in this case (but he probably knows who did...), but who cares about facts or probable cause in Swedish courts (see TPB case) ;)
(Anyway, maybe it's good for him spend some time in prision, away from drugs.)
Fixed that for you
I mean every message and statement on TPB is about freedom and such, but then they basically distribute access to copyrighted content. Freedom is not selective. People have a right to distribute content, but people also have a right to protect their content, period.
While you may not like copyright, its a law, and breaking the law is breaking the law.
I don't believe, however, that exposing links to protected material is the same as distributing copyright material. Going after TPB is the easy route, going after the millions of peers that actually have the protected content is impossible. Providing plans how to build a bomb is not the same as someone taking those plans and building a bomb with intent to use it, for instance.
However the the messaging of the TPB is watered down and idealistic. They want to be a mechanism to allow independents in music, video or other arts to have a mechanism to get content to the masses, which I wholeheartedly support, yet the primary and often only reason why people use TPB is to steal protected content. Why? Because its there.
TPB will not change the minds of billion dollar companies to remove copyright and freely distribute content, nor should they. If I spend $100 million to make a movie, and take the risk to release it, I expect a return on that investment and have the "freedom" to have the content protected. Just because its easy to steal digital content doesn't make it valid. If it was easy to steal cars it doesn't make it a valid argument that I should be allowed to steal cars then.
If TPB was serious about being a mechanism for content distribution for the "independent" then they should have changed their site long ago and blocked links to copyrighted content. I mean you can't be a champion for the independent when you don't respect people that also want to protect their investments.
The fight against DRM and copyright is NOT THE SAME as providing a resource for independent content distribution, nobody is blocking independent content distribution, just look at YouTube and Vimeo and Tumblr and Instagram and a slew of other social content channels.
TPB should switch to a streaming cloud service allowing independents to provide access to their content. Become the independent Netflix and Pandora and App or Game Store if they really believe in protecting the independent creator, but continuing to offer links to protected content and fighting for the rights of the independent is a mixed message and will only continue to cause them grief.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
Or a Federal pound me in the ass prison?
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
Theyre not arresting him for pirate bay, but for all the other crap he does while showing contempt for the law.
Right from the summary:
for data breaches and aggravated fraud
From the article:
Svartholm Warg was convicted by the Nacka District Court after a hacking attack against Swedish IT firm Logica through which he gained unauthorized access to the personal data of thousands of people, which he then published on the net.
The conviction was also for hacking into the mainframe of Nordea, Scandinavia's biggest bank.
Please tell me how much of a miscarriage of justice it is that this guy be punished.
And you get modded +5 insightful for providing zero insight into this discussion! You didnt even read the summary or article! The mind boggles.
Hey, will someone fix the troll-bot? He's broken again!
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. . . shit, Sherlock. We know how to do the math on that one.
I'm betting at the end of this sentence, he will be remanded into US custody for Crimes Against Corporate Profits, sentenced while on the Gulfstream, and sent directly to Club PMITA for 20 years or suicide whichever comes first.
"pound me in the ass prisons" only exist in fascist states. Unless anal rape is in the given sentence it should not happen.
Actually, he could do something epic. We in Sweden don't have "pound me in the ass prisons" and instead we had a scandal when a convicted pedophile was able to chat with kids online and download kiddie porn to his PC in prison. The TPB founder should consequently run TPB from prison.
Reminds me of the ad for a cell phone company (T-mobile I think) that showed people going into prison cells for a 2 year bid and saying they don't do that/don't have contracts.
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
in Bhutan.