no Swedish law is being violated
Unfortunately, Swedish courts disagreed
Not at that time. That came after the us government pushed the swedish government to do something and they in turn “strongly hinted” to the swedish judiciary system that they better do something.
And finally the sentencing judge socialised professionally with pro-copyright lobbyists.
That came after the us government pushed the swedish government
🎶 We’re all living in Amerika, Amerika ist wunderbar 🎵
🎶 We’re all living in Amerika, America it’s wonder bra ;P
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Nice bravado but he ultimately wasted years of his life in solitary confinement.
EDIT: Maybe not years. Certainly months. Actually it was over a year when you add the reported stints together.
I believe it was because he failed to return to Sweden to serve his Pirate Bay sentence and instead remained in Cambodia where he was living at the time. There was an international warrant out for his arrest and when he was deported back to Sweden he was judged at risk of flight or further “criminal activities”. He was removed from solitary after a few months, so I’m not sure if he was put back there for his later, longer sentence of hacking.
EDIT: He was later held in solitary confinement in Denmark for at least 10 months while awaiting trial for hacking.
20 years ago, Pirate Bay’s response
Holy shit I’m so old 😭
One day I hope to write a “go fuck yourself” email of this caliber.
We would need all peasants doing it at once. One peasant doing it just means you get your head cut off, which unfortunately doesn’t help.
Despite all the lawsuits, it’s still sailing
But not run by the original owners. And the current team is really shady. I wouldn’t trust downloading an .exe from there.
Been using it for decades, never an issue for me. What in the world are you trying to download over there??
The Darknet Diaries podcast made a really good episode about The Pirate Bay, telling the entire story, including funny stories like the responses to these letters, and interviewing Peter Sunde, one of the 3 founders. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/92/
It’s one of my favorites! Also check out Search Engine, one of my favorite new podcasts with an amazing host. “What’s the best phone to do crimes on”, the latest episode, is excellent—Darknet Diaries covered the subject as well, but this goes into even more detail.
I also loved “Who’s behind all those spammy text messages?” but that one gets DARK.
