Swedish court confirms jail for Pirate Bay cofounder - now all they have to do is find him - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Cofounder of the Pirate Bay Gottfrid Svartholm has had his court sentence confirmed after he failed to show up for a court hearing. Now all the court has to do is find him.Svartholm had a limited time to appeal his [URL="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/17/pirate_bay_loses_trial/"]2009 sentence[/URL] of a year in prison and $4.4 million in damages. The other founders - Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström – [URL="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/26/pirate_bay_appeal_verdict/"]all appealed[/URL] their sentences and received reduced jail time and increased damages, but still much less than their recording industry foes had asked for. The only problem now facing the court is how to find Svartholm and enforce the punishment. He has [URL="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/28/pirate_bay_appeal_starts_minus_one_defendant/"]been missing[/URL] for much of the appeals process, and according to his mother was last heard of in Cambodia, and was too sick to attend a legal proceeding. Even his lawyer doesn’t know where he is. “This is actually a really bizarre step from the Swedish court – he’s found guilty because he can’t defend himself,” Sunde told [I][URL="http://torrentfreak.com/jail-sentence-for-pirate-bay-co-founder-made-final-111014/"]TorrentFreak[/URL][/I]. “Way to go, democracy. It will be interesting to see how they will actually try to find him and put him into jail. If he’s not alive – will they put his gravestone into a jail cell for a year?” The other three defendants are still waiting for their [URL="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/20/pirate_bay_carl_lundstrom/"]appeal to be heard[/URL] by the Swedish Supreme court, and are reasonably confident that they can still beat the prison sentences imposed or have the charges dismissed. “In the end, we’ll win. I’m certain of that,” Sunde said. “It’s just that we don’t have the same lobby power as these groups we’re fighting. But the law is on our side, however what we’ve learned is that having the legal right is not the same as winning in court. It all depends on who’s paying the judges.” ®[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/15/swedish_jail_for_pirate_bay_founder/"]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/15/swedish_jail_for_pirate_bay_founder/ [/URL]

Good luck with that.

Well fuck you legal system, I had faith in you :colbert:

Who knows, he might have been killed by some mega media corporation.

Sounds like he could be dead.

He's just hiding.

I hate the entire thing, the judge/judges was or had been active in pro-copyright movements. It's so fucking biased it's stupid.

It seems that quite literally nobody knows where this guy is, not even the people who used to work with him.

He transferred to the other side. He lives in the virtual world now. He turned into pure information, faring the internet. [sp]I would check his mother's basement[/sp]

I'm totally against being jailed for linking to illegal content without hosting it, but you do know the dude helped make a site explicitly to provide illegal materials? I mean come on.

[QUOTE=Jookia;32814728]I'm totally against being jailed for linking to illegal content without hosting it, but you do know the dude helped make a site explicitly to provide illegal materials? I mean come on.[/QUOTE] I'm sure he had linux distros in mind

[QUOTE=Jookia;32814728]I'm totally against being jailed for linking to illegal content without hosting it, but you do know the dude helped make a site explicitly to provide illegal materials? I mean come on.[/QUOTE] It's not up to the juridical system to decide what he was [i]thinking[/i] or [i]intending[/i] when he helped build the site. That is akin to thought crime and it's partly why the sentences are so disturbing.

they should just lock him up and throw away the key i'm sorry but this has just been going on for too long

[QUOTE=Neolithic v2;32815708]they should just lock him up and throw away the key i'm sorry but this has just been going on for too long[/QUOTE] Because he is such a detriment to society by hosting a site in where people may be able to share information. We should hang him high

[QUOTE=Neolithic v2;32815708]they should just lock him up and throw away the key i'm sorry but this has just been going on for too long[/QUOTE] Mods can you ban this guy already? I have seen him in this thread, the marijuana thread, and another thread all trying to incite a flamewar.

[QUOTE=Red scout?;32813486]Well fuck you legal system, I had faith in you :colbert:[/QUOTE] God I miss that emoticon, heck I miss allot of them :v:

I don't get how anyone can face legal charges for owning a torrent tracker. There is no law that does not allow linking to illegal content. If there was such a law (I think they tried to make one in US or somewhere) so much shit would go down. What I am surprised even more is that this is in Sweden. Aren't they all about free internet?

Piratebay is banned in Belgium: [quote=TPB] The access to this website is blocked in conformity with a decision of the Antwerp Court of Appeal dated 26 September 2011. For any additional information, you can contact the Belgian Anti-piracy Federation (BAF), at Almaplein 3 P.O. Box 10, 1200 Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe - [URL]http://www.anti-piracy.be/en/[/URL]. [/quote] (same is said in French, Dutch and German) Its ISP blocking, so I just use a proxy. Is TPB blocked in any other countries?

Fighting piracy is a loosing battle. It's going to be easier to find Waldo, Tupac, Elvis, and Biggie than it will be to get Gottfrid Svartholm.

[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;32816955]Fighting piracy is a loosing battle. It's going to be easier to find Waldo, Tupac, Elvis, and Biggie than it will be to get Gottfrid Svartholm.[/QUOTE] Fighting piracy was never even a battle. Neither it was in the old times where you had to physically copy the goods, neither it is now when you have to digitally copy them. I still can't understand why companies and governments can't get that in their heads and instead promote the customer so that a pirate wants to become one. Right now in many cases piracy is much more rewarding than being a customer. Not only do you get ripped off in price, you get little content, and even that little piece is riddled with all kinds of drm or other junk to stop the customer from using his shit. I miss the old times where you could install a game or a program and use it, not go through hoops just to activate it and then find out it runs like crap because it's a terrible port. As for music, if the label wants to actually sell more, firstly give some of that money to the fucking artist. Then include various goodies, both physical and digital ones. And don't bullshit me that they can't afford it. The big labels are swimming in cash like pigs in the dirt. I really wish Occupy movement would do anything about that. It's like if your country treated you like shit but a foreign nation would actually provide friendly environment (many pirate communities have amazing and nice people really). Obviously everyone would move to another nation.

[QUOTE=The Baconator;32816570]God I miss that emoticon, heck I miss allot of them :v:[/QUOTE] [url]http://sae.tweek.us/[/url]

Any way to get it to work with opera?

A pirate among nerds.

[QUOTE=The Baconator;32816570]God I miss that emoticon, heck I miss allot of them :v:[/QUOTE] [url=http://forums.somethingawful.com/misc.php?action=showsmilies][img]http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-colbert.gif[/img][/url] What are you talking about?

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;32814675]He transferred to the other side. He lives in the virtual world now. He turned into pure information, faring the internet. [sp]I would check his mother's basement[/sp][/QUOTE] Daedalus? Or Marty? A bad ass once human AI on the internet, or some guy who lives in his mom's basement?

[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;32816955]Fighting piracy is a loosing battle. It's going to be easier to find Waldo, Tupac, Elvis, and Biggie than it will be to get Gottfrid Svartholm.[/QUOTE] the fact that three people in your list are dead and one is fictional does not bode well for gottfrid

[QUOTE=Unsmart;32816910]Piratebay is banned in Belgium: (same is said in French, Dutch and German) Its ISP blocking, so I just use a proxy. Is TPB blocked in any other countries?[/QUOTE] its blocked in mine

It was [I]assassins[/I]

Sounds like he ordered a new dust filter for his Hoover MaxExtract 60 PressurePro Carpet Deep Cleaner .

[QUOTE=Unsmart;32816910]Piratebay is banned in Belgium: (same is said in French, Dutch and German) Its ISP blocking, so I just use a proxy. Is TPB blocked in any other countries?[/QUOTE] In Denmark most ISP's has blocked the domain thepiratebay in their DNS, so a simple switch to googles DNS servers fixes that. Sure it isnt the same with your ISP's?