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Pirate Bay Founder's Custody Extended to February 5th

Posted by Unknown on from the copyright-more-important-than-freedom dept.

The Pirate Bay co-founder Warg has been held in solitary confinement since being turned over by Sweden to Denmark in December. Yesterday, he appeared in a closed court session where the judge ordered he continue to be held until at least February 5th. From the article: "In an attempt to free the Swede, or at least improve his circumstances, a petition was launched recently, directed at the Danish Prime Minister. Initially there were only a few hundred backers but when a banner was added to the homepage of The Pirate Bay this quickly grew to more than 50,000. Among other things, the petition demands that Gottfrid is given free access to books and other reading material." Although kept from computers and books, he is at least no longer being held in solitary confinement as of last week.

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  1. The books thing seems a bit harsh. by tlambert · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The books thing seems a bit harsh.

    PS: If you locked me away without books for 3 months, I'd probably come out of it as a supervillian, bent on wreaking vengeance on society. I'm just saying.

    1. Re:The books thing seems a bit harsh. by lgw · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Yes, that's exactly why "solitary confinement" is the closest thing to brutal torture most modern societies will inflict. Vile mental punishment.

      WTF has this guy done to anger the authorities to such an extent? Do American corporations really have such reach? I doubt that - makes me wonder what the rest of the story is.

      --
      Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
  2. EU human rights court by EMG+at+MU · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe after the EU human rights court gets done listening to Snowden they can take a look inwards at their own terrible examples of not respecting human rights.

    Puting a guy in solitary because he ran a file sharing website? God in Wisconsin you can drive drunk and your first offence is just a traffic ticket. You can kill people driving drunk, I don't understand why we punish guys who threaten profits more than guys who threaten lives.

    1. Re:EU human rights court by Narcocide · · Score: 4, Insightful

      When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

      Human life must be practically valueless compared to corporate profits.

  3. Solitary Confinement? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So he gets the same treatment as mass murderers? Clearly the copyright barons have 1) swung the pendulum to have copyright last far longer than is reasonable (20 years, 1 generation, is reasonable, forever is what we have now), and 2) they have corrupted anyone they deal with into 'going along' with their 'forever copyright, infinite profits, infinite fines and jail' mentality.

  4. Nothing to do with TPB or copyright infringement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Gottfried is charged for hacking the largest financial service in northern Europe. He claims being a victim of malware on his personal pc.
    Generally speaking the Scandinavian countries has one of the most fair justice systems in the world.

  5. Re:Nothing to do with TPB or copyright infringemen by FriendlyLurker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Generally speaking the Scandinavian countries has one of the most fair justice systems in the world.

    That may have been the case several decades ago. That is defiantly no longer the case, especially in Swedens case - they have fallen far and fast.

  6. Re:Solitary confinement is standard practice by xaxa · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Here's a link for anyone else interested in further information on this: http://www.humanityinaction.org/knowledgebase/323-solitary-confinement-a-threat-to-denmark-s-credibility