Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Arrested In Sweden

An anonymous reader writes "Peter Sunde was arrested today in a police raid in southern Sweden. The Pirate Bay co-founder was wanted by Interpol as he had yet to serve prison time for his involvement with the site. Sunde's arrest comes exactly eight years after the police raided the Pirate Bay servers, which marked the start of the criminal prosecution against the site's founders." From the article: "While details are scarce at the moment, the Swedish newspaper Expressen reports that the arrest has been confirmed by the Swedish authorities. According to Peter Althin, Sunde’s lawyer, the news means that his client will most likely be sent to prison to serve his 8-month sentence. Sunde’s prison sentence was made final in 2012 after Sweden’s Supreme Court announced its decision not to grant leave to appeal in the long-running criminal case against the founders of The Pirate Bay."

Comments

And nothing changes...

[Anonymous Coward]

They're wasting their time. TPB hasn't even been taken down yet, and even if it was, users would just flock to the many, many other similar sites that exist. The copyright fools have lost this war in practice.

Re:His 'role in the site'

[AK Marc]

So, what would you do with people that make The Anarchist Cookbook available? Jail? Or should we just burn the books, is that far enough?

8 month prison sentence in sweden?

[voss]

Ive seen youth hostels and college dorms worse than swedish prison cells.