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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Arrested In Sweden

Posted by timothy on from the high-priority dept.

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."

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  1. Re:8 months in a Swedish prison by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Civilised countries don't extradite people to third world shitholes. He wouldn't be going to the US unless he was a murderer say, and only then if the prosecution took the death penalty off the table.

  2. Re:That's not true and you know it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    As long as the big banks and government can "play semantic games" to get away with fucking over orders of magnitude more people for far more money, then the little guy should be able to as well.