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Gottfrid Svartholm, who disappeared while facing a 1-year jail sentence and hefty fine in Sweden, is taken into custody in Phnom Penh.
Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm, who disappeared while facing a jail sentence and hefty fine in Sweden for aiding in copyright infringement, has been arrested in Cambodia, according to a report.
Svartholm was arrested on Thursday by Cambodian police in Phnom Penh, [URL="http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founder-arrested-in-cambodia-120901/"]reports[/URL]TorrentFreak, which points in its story to a piece in Swedish-language newspaper [URL="http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/svartholm-warg-gripen-i-kambodja_7465932.svd"]Svenska Dagbladet[/URL].
The reason for the arrest has not been officially announced by Swedish or Cambodian authorities, TorrentFreak says, but borrowing from the SvD report, it quotes Svartholm's lawyer, Ola Salomonsson, as saying, "As far as I understand it is because he is on an international wanted list." (See update below as well.) Salomonsson also said Svartholm could be sent back to Sweden eventually, though there's no extradition treaty between that country and Cambodia.
Svartholm, along with Pirate Bay cohorts Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, and Carl Lundstrom, was[URL="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10221666-93.html"]found guilty[/URL] in 2009 of having made 33 copyright-protected files accessible for illegal file sharing via the Piratebay.org Web site. The four men were each sentenced to a year in jail and were also ordered to collectively pay a total of 30 million Swedish kronor ($3.6 million) in damages to copyright holders, among them a number of American media giants.
An appeal attempt by Sunde, Neij, and Lundstrom came to an end this past February when the Sweden Supreme Court [URL="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-57369583-17/swedish-high-court-scuttles-pirate-bay-appeal/"]refused to hear their case[/URL].
Svartholm failed to appear at the initial appeal hearing in 2010, presenting a medical certificate that said he was confined to a hospital in Cambodia, TorrentFreak notes. But he also failed to show at a subsequent hearing and has been missing ever since. In the meantime, his sentence and $1.1 million share of the fine were finalized in Sweden's courts.
Svartholm was due to begin serving his jail sentence in January.
[B]Update, 10:38 a.m. PT: [I]Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet [URL="http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article15343288.ab"]reported[/URL] that a Swedish Foreign Ministry representative confirmed only that a Swedish citizen had been arrested in Phnom Penh and said (according to Google Translate), "There is a man in his 30s who was arrested because he was on an international wanted list."[/I][/B]
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[URL="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57504842-93/pirate-bay-co-founder-svartholm-arrested-in-cambodia/"]Source (CNET)[/URL]
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Gottfrid Svartholm, [URL="http://thepiratebay.se/"]The Pirate Bay[/URL] founder better known online as Anakata, has been arrested in a riverfront apartment in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital.
He has been wanted internationally ever since January, when he failed to appear in Sweden to serve a 12-month prison sentence.
So far, neither Cambodian nor Swedish authorities have issued public statements about the charges Svartholm now faces; we’ll update this post as more information becomes available.
[B]OP NOTE: CNET says that the Swedish Foreign Ministry has issued a statement. Reproduced here:
Update, 10:38 a.m. PT: Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reported that a Swedish Foreign Ministry representative confirmed only that a Swedish citizen had been arrested in Phnom Penh and said (according to Google Translate), "There is a man in his 30s who was arrested because he was on an international wanted list."
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Svartholm has been in significant legal trouble since 2006, when Swedish police first raided The Pirate Bay, a torrent site, for copyright violations.
In January 2008, Svartholm and Pirate Bay cohorts Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundström were charged with promoting others’ infringement of copyright, a conviction of which could lead to up to to years in jail and huge restitution fines.
In April 2009, the four were convicted as accessories to copyright crime and sentenced to one year in prison each. They were also ordered to pay around $3.5 million (30 million Swedish kronor) in damages.
While the other three Pirate Bay folks appealed and saw their prison time reduced (but their fines increased), Svartholm did not appeal. His window of time to appeal ran out in October 2011, and he was supposed to show up in Sweden January 2012 to start serving his year behind bars. Since failing to do so, he has been wanted internationally.
The 2006 raid, 2009 trial, and other events caused a storm of online activity, much of it retaliatory DDoS attacks and protests in support of The Pirate Bay team. While it remains the target of legal action, The Pirate Bay remains up and running and recently issued a statement reading, “We’re staying put where we are. We’re going nowhere. But we have a message to Hollywood, the investigators and the prosecutors: LOL.”[/quote]
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[QUOTE=Solece;37498481][img]http://i.imgur.com/5ooPy.png[/img]
nooooooooooooo[/QUOTE]
The second thread is just an info thing, nobody is going to get arrested from it, you are safe
[editline]1st September 2012[/editline]
Or so I'm told
I still can't fathom what he is guilty of. You might say he hosted information to the locations of illegal content, but even then, there's Swiss banks that hold millions of dollars of tax money and whatnot, yet they get away with it. It's clear that law enforcement's priorities are skewed to say the least.
[QUOTE=Number-41;37498633]I still can't fathom what he is guilty of. You might say he hosted information to the locations of illegal content, but even then, there's Swiss banks that hold millions of dollars of tax money and whatnot, yet they get away with it. It's clear that law enforcement's priorities are skewed to say the least.[/QUOTE]
Swiss law has a distinction in tax evasion and dodging, but I would suppose that is beyond your point. It is more due to the willing infringement. Swiss banks respond to the law, and their laws have been doubled over in strictness following WW2 and some rather heinous discoveries. TPB flouts the law. For example, look at the end of the second article. They've posted DMCAs and laughed at them. It's not like TPB attempts to remove infringing material, it's basically promoted.
Even if TPB isn't the best site for torrents, it sure made a clear point to anti-p2p groups.
And it still will, because you can even host a mirror for the site yourself.
[QUOTE=usaokay;37499258]I guess having a white guy in a place full of tanned Asians would make him stand out.
One time I saw a black guy in a Cambodian mall. That was the only time I saw a black guy in Cambodia.[/QUOTE]
"Tanned" is not the word to describe that because we get super dark. Im half white and cambodian and I stand out but I do get really tan
The whole idea of people having to serve a year in jail for a few copyrighted files still baffles me, people who steal or commit assault can get much shorter sentences without the ridiculous fine.
Am I the only person who sees some sort of military climbing down into a Vietnam-esque jungle, knocking him unconcious and then driving him into a super secret prison complex?
I don't know why he didn't try and escape to Ecuador. The tension with Assange is making tension with Ecuador boil over, this would just make the International community literally explode. It would be funny seeing the US finally defied.
[QUOTE=FlashMarsh;37499653]Am I the only person who sees some sort of military climbing down into a Vietnam-esque jungle, knocking him unconcious and then driving him into a super secret prison complex?
I don't know why he didn't try and escape to Ecuador. The tension with Assange is making tension with Ecuador boil over, this would just make the International community literally explode. It would be funny seeing the US finally defied.[/QUOTE]
Yeah the US is never 'defied', I mean Russia, India, China, South America, Middle East.
All those places don't count right
Silly guy, you need to go into a country that uses you for "haha we have him not you" purposes. Countries that need to inflate their ego. Like Venezuela or Belarus or something.
[QUOTE=Fangz;37499437]Thread Music:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTsXHXMkJA[/media][/QUOTE]
I don't think a Punk Rock anti War song has much to do with some Pirate getting busted.
[editline]1st September 2012[/editline]
Great song nonetheless.
[QUOTE=Fangz;37499437]Thread Music:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTsXHXMkJA[/media][/QUOTE]
Alestorm would fit much better.
[QUOTE=proch;37500244]I don't think a Punk Rock anti War song has much to do with some Pirate getting busted.
[editline]1st September 2012[/editline]
Great song nonetheless.[/QUOTE]
Well he did take a rather long "holiday" over there
I guess that one fits then
[video=youtube;Sp6vqtO57I4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp6vqtO57I4[/video]
If Osama Bin Laden downloaded a few songs on 9/11, he would have been successfully hunted down and arrested a decade ago. This year it seems like pirate site admins are being gone after with more vigor and resources than any terrorists.
Admittedly we haven't murdered any site admins with drone strikes yet. I'm sure that's coming soon.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;37500630]If Osama Bin Laden downloaded a few songs on 9/11, he would have been successfully hunted down and arrested a decade ago.[/QUOTE]
Not really, nobody cares if you download a few movies. It's mass uploaders and site hosters that the police want to crack down on.
[video=youtube;Wu4Nq2wioT4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu4Nq2wioT4[/video]
Even better.
Should have hidden in China.
Cambodia? Holy shit :v:
[QUOTE=proch;37500244]I don't think a Punk Rock anti War song has much to do with some Pirate getting busted.
[editline]1st September 2012[/editline]
Great song nonetheless.[/QUOTE]
Not really an anti-war song.
Gotta wonder what goes through one's head when you decide to create a site like that...
[QUOTE=No_Excuses;37504151]Gotta wonder what goes through one's head when you decide to create a site like that...[/QUOTE]
"Garrh! Shiver me Timbers ye skallywags! Which of ye skurvy landlubbers want te sharr information!?"
[editline]3rd September 2012[/editline]
Garrh!
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