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

His 'role in the site'

[nurb432]

Or some trumped up charges that they can make stick? Running a site based on user content, ( remember they didn't house any files ) should not be considered a crime.

They really did nothing more than lets say, Slashdot..

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?

Re:His 'role in the site'

[blahplusplus]

"Do you have any idea how stupid you sound when you make such statements. You lose all credibility when you act like facilitating crime isn't in and of itself a crime."

The original crime was monopoly, Intellectual property and it's believers are the biggest scam going. The people who originally wrote copyright didn't expect it'd become eternal.

Look at the following chart:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

If you still think he's a "criminal" you are too stupid and illiterate to see that the law is nothing but the rich man's tool to take away the rights of everyone else.

Re: His 'role in the site'

[Arker]

"One assumes that if the man was convicted of a "crime" in Sweden, than what he did was against Swedish Law..."

Except it was already pretty well established that what they were doing was perfectly legal under Swedish law and they had been operating quite openly for some time until Hollywood got real annoyed and DC phoned in threatened sanctions.

Then suddenly they had US-style SWAT raids on a bunch of geeks (this kind of treatment the Swedish Police do not typically resort to even when dealing with Russian Mafia) and a judge who ruled that it did not matter that what they actually *did* was legal, because their *intent* was not. Think about that for a second.

Re: His 'role in the site'

[Arker]

"You cheapen the term "political prisoner" when you apply it to someone who goes to jail for something as mundane as piracy. "

There was no piracy involved or even alleged. He never raised a cutlass, boarded a skiff, or ravished a prisoner.

You unjustly honor the term 'pirate' when you apply it to someone whose crime was facilitating communication.

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.

That's not true and you know it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Stop playing semantic games. "Data" is a highly abstract and generalized categorization of things that, for every practical difference, are worlds apart.

An anonymous posting on a blog is *not the same thing* as a musical piece that required a lot of talent and upfront costs to produce. Though both can be stored as data, they are as different as night and day.

The level of control asserted over data, by the wealthy entrenched powers, is precisely the level of control that the unwashed masses choose to abide. If enough people really and truly believed that information should be free, the amount of political and economic force they could bring to bear (with relatively little effort) would change the laws and the balance of power.

Individual acts of defiance might get some media attention, but that is about it. You can't change the system that way. You can change the system through, and only through, large groups of people that agree with you.

Re:That's not true and you know it.

[K. S. Kyosuke]

If the normal number hypothesis holds for Pi, doesn't it mean that there are all the Metallica songs in MP3 somewhere in it? ;-)

Re:That's not true and you know it.

[drinkypoo]

The idea is that PI never stops and every possible number sequence (including the complete music catalog of Metallica in MP3 format) is in there somewhere.

Hopefully, even Pi is smart enough to avoid St. Anger.