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Pirate Bay Co-founder Arrested In Northeastern Thailand
New submitter SeeingMole writes, just a few days after Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Warg was found guilty in Denmark, that Thai immigration police arrested 36-year-old Fredrik Neij, aka TiAMO, while driving a car to pass through the border checkpoint from Laos into Thailand with his Lao wife. He was wearing the same shirt that he wore in his arrest warrant photo. In 2009, Neij was convicted along with Per Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi and Carl Lundstroem of 'assisting in making copyright content available' in Stockholm, Sweden. Also at the BBC; thanks to reader iONiUM.
Can fist you wherever you are. Remember that.
For wearing the same shirt. If only he had changed, they never would have noticed him.
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."-THG
A swig of grog for our mateys who are rotting in the brig! :-(
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
He really should have gotten rid of that shirt...
When someone says, "Any fool can see
As someone employed in the entertainment industry, I've seen first hand the damage tpb and his piracy enablers have done.
It is not the big players that are hurt. It is the niche content producers who cannot survive on rampant copyright infringement.
This guy is one of the top pirates and deserves no mercy and should be punished as harshly as possible. Maybe that will scare other pirates to obey the law.
Yea, so if you guys haven't figured it out yet, they've cracked however it is you're communicating. Time to ditch the laptops/cellphones and I hope you have a fail over channel.
This is just a shame, a real shame.
When I grow up I hope to become as inbred as you!
ALl this man did was help build a search enging allowing people to share.
This only benefits society.
There is no stealing, despite what some ignorant people unable to think for themselves claim.
Is there a loss in profit for original work? No doubt, but I would argue this is superseded by a) the increase in sales that piracy has been shown to affect, and b) the huge benefit to society by allowing information to be more freely accessible, to inspire and educate.
If you ignore ACs because they are anonymous - you're an idiot.
Welp, they got him! Don't we all feel so much safer. After all, the heinous crime of "assisting in making copyright content available" surely warrants the international manhunts. I can walk downstairs and buy a stack of any movies or games or, well, anything I wish in the open in China..good thing countries like the US use grand tools like embargos to press the Chinese government to do something about it!
It's easy to pick a famous name - or create symbols for these 'wars' and spend ridiculous amounts of money on the behalf of old-style big business with lobbyists and donations...but the solution to piracy is to change the business model employed by the companies or artists who are being hurt by piracy. Louis CK famously sold $1mil in a week worth of $5 specials on his own website, why? Because he put out a great product and said: You don't need to sign up with a bunch of information or provide me with a bunch of details, or opt into some kind of marketing scheme, you can give me $5 and get a product, and watch it anywhere on any device you want..or pirate it.. do whatever you like - but I'm trying to provide a quality product and hopefully you'll appreciate that.
The alternative is to fall into the game, music, and movie big industry problem of pushing out a massive amount of shit at high 'standardised' pricing to audiences who are tired of spending too much and getting too little, and as a result, driving people to simply pirate and try things before deciding what they really want to support. Personally I pirate most of my games, I also bought legitimate consoles and buy legitimate copies of games I *really* want, or buy authentic DVD/sets when there is something I really like out there - 100% of which I have already seen.
They'll get the hint, someday, or crumble eventually. For now, people like Gottfrid need to be admired for what they've contributed to making change happen.
Fuck dude. Maybe you should realize that you are useless. You provide no value. You job and thousands like you can be replaced by exactly 0 people. The small niche players were never cared for or looked after by the likes of you. They provided you no money, so you were no interested. With the democratization of the internet, the small players may actually have a niche. But you can buy off your hired guns and arrest people like this. So I guess you can continue making money for a little while
... SRT has been in development for several years and its success rate improved greatly after Google bought out the shirt recognition technology site, "Shirt Happens," back in 2011.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Send him to Guantanamo! He committed horrible atrocities against Sony and EA's profits!!
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
dice holdings could use that giant 'click here' to run flash player ad box to open an open /.chatbox? unedited current events in the world of gizmology being discussed by the hobbyist whiners behind the burlap curtain? chatboxing firsts continue to happen... never a subscription fee or cover charge..
said.
and two years to get this guy. Nice to know where priorities stand in this world.
Shows how the police world wide work for Hollywood. Money trumps everything!
I'm curious if you and the parent both feel very strongly about ethics in games journalism
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
The Pirate bay is well known, high profile, and a very receptive target for litigation. the founders likely know that arresting them, imprisoning them, and litigating them will have very little impact on torrent and file sharing sites as a whole. TPB is sufficiently clustered to avoid most politically induced outages, while full outages merely drive the support and creation of new sites and technologies to avoid future outages and tracking. Magnet links and SSL were a direct result of TPB users feeling insecure.
Good people go to bed earlier.
that Thailand isn't a good place to hide out? Sure, it seems all exotic and far out to an unsophisticated pleb but the place is packed with ex-pats and tourists. It would be about the same as fleeing to Barbados or some other tourist trap Caribbean Island. They have extradition treaties with the West and love to suck up America and Europe. If you really want to get away go to Laos, Myanmar or even Russia!
At least Thailand can now get back to what they do best. Child prostitution, human trafficking, destroying their reef, heroin production led by the elite, fake purses, and selling dvds of new movies in broad daylight. Oh, and killing poor drug users.
*tips fedora*
It's common over there to cross a border (leave the country) in order to get your passport stamped and renew your tourist VISA. The practice is so common there are organized "VISA runs" via bus and even services that will do the legwork (exit for you - lol) every few months. It's possible he was just trying to be in Laos legally.
I am a classic man of style. Every time when it is possible, I strive to pay the artist properly. I see the entertainment value in the products that I buy, and am happy to support the artists to reward them and to encourage them to make more cool stuff.
Just think that if he had sold billions of bad mortgages and defrauded both investors and the public sending the entire world economy to the brink of collapse, he would have gotten no jail time and a multi-billion dollar bailout.
Instead he built a web page that lets people find trackers, and he must be put away for life.
'Merica!!!!!
Discard the shirts I'm wearing in all my mugshots.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
Pretty sure its spelled "S-w-e-d-e-n", not "Murica"-- unless Stockholm was recently relocated to the USA?
You misunderstand, on the internet, anything bad is defined as American. Anyone being fat, ignorant, bigoted, or otherwise being a twat is defined as being an American.
These men have excellent technical skills. But their ability to fly under the radar "to cover their asses" is absolutely zero. Change your fucking shirt! Shave the beard (or grow one). Wear glasses or take them off. Use a middle name. Have your wife drive the car through the border. Make sure she looks pretty. They will be mostly staring at her (most border guards are male). Its all subtle and minor and keeps your ass out of jail. But going around and saying 'fuck that' and baiting them to arrest you will .....get them arresting you. And if the Danish jails are like camp cupcake, know that if the Americans seek extradition, you could wind up in a jail in Southern Arizona, fighting the snakes and scorpions (not just rival jailhouse gangs, but the creatures too). Bitter youth with too much hubris could turn into bitter middle age with a record. Julian Asange didn't want to be deported to Sweden because of American extradition laws (and very uncomfortable prisons with long time spans).
While games are among the things you can pirate on TPB, there isn't much to do with games here. Though with regard to his wife...I'm pretty sure that's a mail order bride situation, only due to the circumstances of avoiding incarceration he came to live in her native country. You can see the details of their marriage arrangement in that documentary called TPB AFK, and it's apparent that he paid a sum of money to be able to marry her, and she doesn't really seem *that* fond of him in any of the shots that she's in.
I don't think mail order bride situations are all bad mind you. I've met a few of the women in such a situation, and they seem to prefer their present situation WAY more than what they had prior to the arrangement. One of the ones I knew used to live in the Philippines, and she told me how she almost died there when some Islamic activist ended up suicide bombing a bus that she luckily happened to be late for. That, and she was dirt poor there.
Piracy is a real problem when the number of people paying drops too low to support the work because of piracy.
Basicly, if it takes 100 people paying the retail price to pay for the production, and there are 100,000 people in your target market, it doesn't matter if 9/10 of them pirate it the remaining 10,000 paying customers is still way more than it takes to break even. If there are only 150 people in your target market, you're screwed if more than 1/3 of them pirate it.
"Niche" productions, aren't the same as "indy". Indy works with mass appeal usually benefit from piracy as word of mouth tends to grow their target market, and obscurity (getting only the 150 market instead of the 100,000 market) is the bigger problem. However niche productions are the ones that are only interesting to a small group. Those will never get the 100,000 market no matter what, and so being unable to wring money from every member of the 150 market can make the production unviable.
I love how the Sweden, Norway and Finland all go after the pirate bay like bloodthirsty psychopaths but let the head cutting clitoris chopping evil satanic murderous low life Satan's cult Islam rape, plot and destroy their countries from within.
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Is always a bad idea. Especially in the case of piracy. All it does is provide a way for someone who didn't even perform the song to make money out of nothing. If the entire concept was erased from human consciousness, the world would be a better place for everyone. But record companies probably wouldn't exist in their current form. Software authors might have to work on commission. There would be kinks to work out, but in the end, humanity would benefit greatly. But, there are plenty of coders and content creators on here who will disagree, but that's because *their* business model is built on a failed concept.
Whoosh.
here's the root post:
Pathetic beta white boy can't even get a white woman, had to settle with some dirty chink.
A lot of this misogynistic and racist language is showing up inside of GamerGate spheres.
I was joking and suggesting that the person was involved with GamerGate.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
For having created the second most useful site on the Internet right after Wikipedia!
M'lady
Or you are a leader in a christian church of some type.