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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. Fresh Start by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can't believe this is what our "FREE" world does to some of its brightest minds. Money Money Money .... humanity can be so much better through the pursuit of knowledge - sharing freely and openly - collaborating together to make an open source world - where everyone can freely share - where rather than compete against each other - we help one another. So long as the "almighty buck" and so called greedy corporations control our world - there is no hope.

    There is more of us than of them - yet our lives - our laws and everything else is controlled by so very few in govt and ceo's that are supposed to represent what we (the people) want through representational govt that is a farce.

    How petty - how infantile and how ridiculous we have come, tsk tsk. The next step for human societal evolution is to rid the world of the greed that kills human spirit. I hope the Aaron Schwartz's/snowdens/manning and other bright minds we have with the right attitude - the right heart to share in the spirit of humanity and to succeed to remove this evil cancer holding back humanity.

    My sympathies go out to all these warriors out there and their families, I wish I had half the balls you do to go against the "system" and do the right thing by people and by society.