Pirate Bay Founder's Custody Extended to February 5th

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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[binarylarry]

Captured Al-Qaida operatives probably look at him and go "Whew, I'm glad I'm not THAT guy!"

Well yeah

[Stargoat]

You absolutely need to keep him from books. Good God, the man could copy/steal Pride and Prejudice and post it to a website! Or he could read the Daily Telegraph and learn how poorly Manchester United is doing.

For the love of Pete. Has this American sickness infected everyone?

Re:Well yeah

[umafuckit]

Well, you could always get a bunch of your friends together, storm the prison, and free him yourself.

You don't need a bunch of friends, just a helicopter: http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=29600886975

The books thing seems a bit harsh.

[tlambert]

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.

EU human rights court

[EMG at MU]

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.

this is all just a big misunderstanding.

[nimbius]

sweden: ok Denmark here ya go. Finland, tell Denmark This hooligan is wanted for pirating everything from independence day to terminator.
finnish translator relays information
Denmark: Jesus Christ this guys the Terminator and hes trying to destroy our independence?!
Finnish translator:....perkele.....

Solitary confinement is standard practice

[johnjaydk]

If you and a mate steals a couple of bicycles, only you get nicked and don't rat on the mate immediately then it's solitary for you pal.

Standard practice in Denmark and it's a fucking disgrace. Amnesty International have been all over this for years but without any results. Makes us look like a bunch of savages.

Nothing to do with TPB or copyright infringement

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

charges?

[kervin]

According the the petition link in the summary ( I know it's a lot to ask that you read it ), these accusations were dropped. And he isn't charged with anything currently.

Re:Nothing to do with TPB or copyright infringemen

[FriendlyLurker]

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.