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Pirate Bay founder to be deported from Cambodia, faces jail term in Sweden

Published time: September 04, 2012 09:50
Edited time: September 04, 2012 14:42
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Cambodia will deport a Pirate Bay co-founder as soon as the country’s foreign minister approves the move. He was arrested at the request of Sweden, but as Cambodia’s deputy police commissioner states “wherever he goes, we don’t know.”

Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was arrested last Thursday in Cambodia at the request of Swedish authorities at the home he was renting in Phnom Penh. Svartholm was wanted by Sweden on copyright infringement charges after failing to report for a yearlong prison sentence.

"We will deport him based on our immigration law," police spokesman Kirth Chantharith told Reuters.

"We just know we will deport him. As to which country, that would be up to the Swedish side," he said, adding that no date has been set for the extradition yet.

He, along with three of his partners, was given a one-year prison sentence in 2009 and ordered to pay US$3.6 million to entertainment companies over copyright violations.­

Following this, the Swedish government issued an international arrest warrant for Svartholm in January.

Svartholm claimed that his health was too poor for him to attend his sentencing, prompting the judge to uphold his prison sentence and $1.1 million in fines. 

He was one of four co-founders of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, which was temporarily taken offline by Swedish authorities after a court ruled in 2009 that all four individuals were guilty of encouraging copyright violations.

Comments (16)

American (unregistered) 05.09.2012 00:32

Why dont we just stop watching movies for a couple years and see how quickly they allow file sharing, better yet lets just stop making these superhero actors wealtier than all get out and work on changing our Leaders into People we can be proud of.

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Trasher (unregistered) 04.09.2012 20:01

Just go to the movies in a theater, and you end up with 20 $ bill per individual, and usually the movie is just no good, loads of special effects perhaps but where's the content  ?? There is none, there are so many cheap remakes of previously good movies, but they just don't even come close to be as good as the original version, many older great stuff had been released in VHS but never even made it to DVDs in the first place yet people want them back on screen, and many of the movies you buy on DVD format just cost a lot of money only to be released again to one more format as the previous format you bought quickly become obsolete in technology, so why even bother ?? The consumers are being asked too much in money, no wonder many people turn to internet downloads ( aka "Piracy" ) at least you get your money's worth. They took out Napster before, but did "piracy" stopped ?? Nope, it came back in a newer system...

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Trasher (unregistered) 04.09.2012 19:28

Get real, many artists today upload their own work on their own personal sites instead of going to corporations to get their work published, and a lot of them even let people downloading it for 0.00 $, completely free of charge. Those "artists that get their work stolen through piracy" should more be pleased to see that so many people are downloading their work and want it so badly, the artists get almost nothing from the publishers, on the other hands, the publishers better known as corporations get next to everything in this line of deal. It's obvious that the corporations are the true losers to piracy.

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