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Pirate Bay Co-founder Arrested In Northeastern Thailand

Posted by timothy on from the on-the-whole-I'd-rather-be-in-denmark dept.

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.

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  1. The long arm of the law by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Can fist you wherever you are. Remember that.

  2. He must pay for his crimes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

  3. um yea by Charliemopps · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.