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Pirate Bay Founder Gottfrid Warg Faces Danish Jail Time

Posted by timothy on from the he-typed-like-a-one-armed-man dept.

Hammeh writes BBC news reports that Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Warg has been found guilty of hacking into computers and illegally downloading files in Denmark. Found guilty of breaching security to access computers owned by technology giant CSC to steal police and social security files, Mr Warg faces a sentence of up to six years behind bars. Mr Warg argued that although the computer used to commit the offence was owned by him, the hacks were carried out by another individual who he declined to name.

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  1. Re:Find a better excuse by Splab · · Score: 3, Informative

    You know how we know you are from the US? Because you are talking out of your fucking ass!

    Here in Denmark, they have stopped suing random torrent users, because it is impossible to show that the owner of the connection has in fact done the deed. The only people to have been sued lately are those whom either originally uploaded a torrent (and can be proven to have done so) or people making money of of it.

    Now the trial here is going to go to Landsretten, and most likely to HÃjesteret (Supreme court) *and* if Wargs lawyer is any good, it will probably also end up in human rights court; there are so many bad things about it, it is probably the worst case of injustice ever (even if he has in fact done anything wrong).

  2. Prison in Nordics by Kumiorava · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is a brief introduction to a documentary of a NY prison admin going to Norway to look how the prison works there.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

  3. Re:Find a better excuse by Grishnakh · · Score: 3, Informative

    Denmark isn't known for abusing its citizens with a prison-industrial complex the way the USA is. It's also known for being an expensive place to live, with a very high standard of living, just under its cousins Norway and Sweden.

    Combine this with the fact that Denmark only has about 5 million citizens (compared to USA's 310M+), and I imagine there was no hyperbole there at all, assuming he meant within the Danish legal system in recent years.