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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. Find a better excuse by cdrudge · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    Every bittorrent user has tried that excuse when they were caught and I don't think it has ever worked. Try to be a little more original next time Mr. Wang.

    1. Re:Find a better excuse by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Wow, worst case of injustice EVER????

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  2. "not me" did it! by gatfirls · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Really dude? Why not at least say you had a virus/botnet on your machine. At least that gives a reasonable doubt.

    1. Re:"not me" did it! by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 4, Insightful

      There is no way the courts should hold people responsible for something unless they can prove the person who possess it or the evidence of said action can actually be connected.

      Yes, but it's not "prove" as in "any other explanation is 100% impossible." It's "prove beyond a reasonable doubt."

      Without that you wouldn't be able to convict the man standing over the body with the knife in his hand screaming "I'm glad I killed him." There are endless possibilities for the accused's innocence, but most of them would be rightly considered ridiculous and would only belong in an episode of Jonathan Creek.

      Someone who has seen far more of the evidence in this case you or I ever will has decided the criteria for guilt have been met. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, I'm going to lean towards the conclusion that he got convicted not because the system is rigged, but because he did actually do it and the preponderance of evidence was to that effect.

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  3. 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...

  4. Meanwhile, back in Hollywood by Mister+Liberty · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nazi Walt Disney and its offspring keep ravaging your grandma's fairy tales.

  5. Re:BT by rev0lt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...And yet you probably don't have polyo because some guy decided to give the cure to the world. Have a look at your software stack, and the hardware that follows, and all the people that innovated without thinking about money first. Whatever you are today, you owe to those people. And most of them don't really care if you made yourself rich or not - if you cannot conceive this concept, I pitty you. No money in the world will fill that hole.