Cambodia set to boot out Pirate Bay co-founder A co-founder of The Pirate Bay website is to be deported from Cambodia, police have confirmed. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, who co-founded the infamous BitTorrent site in 2003 with Peter Sunde, Carl Lundstrom and Fredrik Neij, will be sent packing from the southeast Asian country to Sweden where, in April 2009, he was convicted - …
Still just glorified linking. Anyway, that was then.
Just strikes me as a little OTT that all these international laws and extradition gubbins is being waved around for linking. Seriously, you could get away with a bit of genocide and still get less crap than these guys are attracting.
Just shows you where the money is.
"Seriously, you could get away with a bit of genocide and still get less crap than these guys are attracting."
Isn't that the fault of our media, though?
It's not like the government tells us what to pay attention to. It's the media that focuses attention. There are plenty of mass-murdering fuck-heads with warrants to their name, but we're not interested in them, apparently.
Which is sad.
The threat of us perhaps not being 'allowed' to download a movie illegally is more important to us than hundreds of people being shot in the face because they believed in the wrong invisible, unprovable entity.
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Have Sweden joined some kind of extradition loyalty card scheme or something? Like buses, you wait for one international criminal mastermind to be arrested by the Swedish, and 2 come along at once...
Why can't people just do the decent thing, and go to Northern Cyprus? No extradition treaties there. Apparently Asil Nadir only came back here because he'd seen the huge loss the Serious Fraud Office had taken in damages, for their most recent balls-up, and wanted a piece of the action. What a shame he was found guilty! Tee hee.
SJRulez-
Your baseless alligations are laughable. Sweden has copyright laws and the Swedish judicial system found TPB owners violated law. They even received an appeal hearing where their jail time was reduced and their fines increased. They knew they were violating law and they flaunted it. Now they are being held accountable for their violations of law. This should be a lesson. You can fight the laws of society but you will never win. Prisons are filled with those who believed they were above the law. They are wrong.
Yep that's why the lead investigator left the police shortly after the raid to go work for the MPAA and Warner Brothers and had previously done private work for them before, not slightly suspicious at all let alone a conflict of interests.
And not to mention the leaked memo:
A letter titled "Re: The Pirate Bay" from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to Dan Eliasson, State Secretary at the Swedish Ministry of Justice, was dated two months before the raid and hinted at trade reprisals ("It is certainly not in Sweden's best interests to earn a reputation as a place where utter lawlessness is tolerated") and urged him to "exercise your influence to urge law enforcement officers in Sweden to take much needed action against The Pirate Bay"
Yep utterly baseless and so laughable, so are you an AC, MPAA Employee or Gov stooge??
"You can fight the laws of society but you will never win." no but in this case you can come up with a disaster plan that exceeds even that of the big boys and have your site back up in less than a few hours.
regarding this case to be leaked, so we can follow the money and see just who paid whom. Or have the RIAA and the MPAA and the US and Swedish governments learned from previous indiscretions and «negotiated» with the relevant Cambodian authorities face-to-face, with all the cash in paper bags ? Oh well, at least we ḱnow that (the so-called «rights-holders» version of) justice has been served....
Henri
Strange that the United States Trade Representative, Ron Kirk went to Cambodia on the day that Gottfrid Svartholm was arrested. Also strange that the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Valery Khoroshkovsky was in the US on the day Demonoid was shut down by Ukrainian police. Maybe the MAFFIA have learned their lessons and are getting their bought and paid for representatives to deal face-to-face with the other governments so as to not leave a paper trail. I would have thought it would have been cheaper to bribe the other governments direct instead of going through US politicians, I suppose they want to see some return on their "investment" in this US election year.
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