Pirate Bay Co-Founder Busted in Cambodia

[Karloff]

Pirate Bay Co-Founder Busted in Cambodia

Cambodian authorities will send Pirate Bay co-founder Warg to Sweden.

Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, one of the founders of Pirate Bay [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/94125-Pirate-Bay-Momentarily-Off-Line-Following-Shut-Down-Order], has been arrested. Cambodian authorities detained him at his home in Phnom Penh, pursuant to an international warrant issued after Warg didn't turn up to serve his sentence for copyright violation. Warg, along with his co-defendants, had traded increased fines for reduced prison time in 2010 as part of their appeals process. Warg was living in Cambodia during the appeal, and claimed to be too ill to return to Sweden. When he didn't come back the Swedish court upheld Warg's original 2009 sentence, which includes a year's prison time.

"His arrest was made at the request of the Swedish government for a crime related to information technology," said police spokesman Kirth Chantharith. "He is being detained in Cambodia and we are waiting to expel him ... We don't have an extradition treaty with Sweden but we'll look into our laws and see how we can handle this case." Deputy National Police Chief Sok Phal later confirmed that Warg would be extradited as soon as Cambodia's interior minister gave his approval.

Despite its troubles - Wired article [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/117287-DDoS-Attack-Scuttles-The-Pirate-Bay], Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde said that sites like his were being persecuted by a dying entertainment industry, determined to resist change by any means necessary. "The internet is being controlled by a corrupt industry," Sunde claimed. "We need to stop it."

Source: Guardian [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/sep/02/pirate-bay-founder-arrested-cambodia]


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[Rainboq]

The attacks on Pirate Bay, like SOPA, PIPA and ACTA are a dying industry lashing out in any way it can, like the Balrog in Lord of the Rings. As it fell, it lashed out with its whip, hoping to kill Gandalf.

 

[ASnogarD]

It almost seems there is more effort going into protecting big business profits than chasing down terrorists and criminals... guess it makes sense, terrorists keep the masses scared and dependant and criminals are not stealing from big businesses (those that are will get caught and prosecuted... like those evil downloaders).

I prefer to buy my stuff, and do most of the time but occasionally I'll 'try' before buying as often the goods are just not value for the asking price... a music CD may only have 1 good song and the rest is rubbish filler, a DVD may sound great on the blurb but end up as some crappy generic rubbish, same with games... especially with games, generic FPS titles that may or may not run on users PC's (with a few post launch patches) and require users to perform some rituals before and after each play session (draconic DRM).

Quality is on the decline but the costs are rising, and often the pirates offer better quality ( DRM free / cracked out games, music without rootkit installs , region free DVD's (bypassing obnoxious censoring based on other peoples opinions on whats safe or not).

Luckily for me I can just wait for deals and bargain bins, I have enough older games to keep me happy while I wait for the current stuff to go on sale and my old collection of tunes to chill out to, movies rarely spark my interest and can catch most of them at cheap sales for the DVD.

... on the other hand mass pirating of games, vids and tunes just takes away the joy of aquisition, you lose the appreciation of the value of the new item you just got hold of.

 

[KeyMaster45]

Let's just get this accusation out of the way early on; with no extradition treaty this reeks of pressure from the US.

 

[Rainboq]

The attacks on Pirate Bay, like SOPA, PIPA and ACTA are a dying industry lashing out in any way it can, like the Balrog in Lord of the Rings. As it fell, it lashed out with its whip, hoping to kill Gandalf.

But unlike the Balrog, it WILL pass

...on.
You really got that from his name being Warg didn't you?

Pretty much!

You have to admit though, the analogy works.

 

[Rainboq]

The attacks on Pirate Bay, like SOPA, PIPA and ACTA are a dying industry lashing out in any way it can, like the Balrog in Lord of the Rings. As it fell, it lashed out with its whip, hoping to kill Gandalf.

But unlike the Balrog, it WILL pass

...on.
You really got that from his name being Warg didn't you?

Pretty much!

You have to admit though, the analogy works.

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/7/78207/2524741-Cool_abbfab_1578124.jpg
It does have a certain ring to it.

We'll just have to hobbit gets used more often.

 

[Rainboq]

The attacks on Pirate Bay, like SOPA, PIPA and ACTA are a dying industry lashing out in any way it can, like the Balrog in Lord of the Rings. As it fell, it lashed out with its whip, hoping to kill Gandalf.

Fascinating that copyright violation is such an unforgivable crime that you'll be hunted to, literally, the ends of the Earth for it.

And here we go again with pirate sympathizers acting as if the piratebay is somehow the good guy defending itself against the big evil corporations.

Please just stop this nonsense already. Piracy and copyright violations may not be murder, but they are still criminal. What part of this is so hard to understand?

Its like saying that I should not be hunted down and arrested for drawing dicks on somebody's house because the act isn't as evil as beating somebody to death with a brick. Its a stupid, childish argument.

Allow me to illustrate the point:

Also:


What we're saying is that the levels that piracy is punished to are absurd.

 

[Asehujiko]

The attacks on Pirate Bay, like SOPA, PIPA and ACTA are a dying industry lashing out in any way it can, like the Balrog in Lord of the Rings. As it fell, it lashed out with its whip, hoping to kill Gandalf.

Fascinating that copyright violation is such an unforgivable crime that you'll be hunted to, literally, the ends of the Earth for it.

And here we go again with pirate sympathizers acting as if the piratebay is somehow the good guy defending itself against the big evil corporations.

Please just stop this nonsense already. Piracy and copyright violations may not be murder, but they are still criminal. What part of this is so hard to understand?

Its like saying that I should not be hunted down and arrested for drawing dicks on somebody's house because the act isn't as evil as beating somebody to death with a brick. Its a stupid, childish argument.

Nice strawman there. This is an article about blatant government corruption, not copyright infringement. And a "pirate sympathizer" doesn't exist because everybody in the world is a "criminal" in your words because listening to somebody elses radio or watching their tv is copyright infringement too so you don't get to claim moral high ground here, criminal.

 

[McMullen]

Harcore_gamer failing to even get on the same map as the point

Hi there. Not a pirate sympathizer here. In fact, I once Googled my own work and found that the first result was a torrent for it. Despite this, I still think something has gone wrong when we hear about copyright violators being extradited in the news more often than we hear about terrorists, murderers, and other big-time criminals.

Hosting a web site with certain links on it does not strike me as deserving of the attention of international law enforcement. It generates the impression that the only reason it has such a priority is because of disproportionate influence from major corporations. This isn't so bad in itself, but the feeling that one is governed less by one's elected representatives and more by corporations is extremely uncomfortable. This is the reason many of us are unhappy with news like this: we see it as evidence that our governments are being subjugated by corporations.

 

[Korak the Mad]

The attacks on Pirate Bay, like SOPA, PIPA and ACTA are a dying industry lashing out in any way it can, like the Balrog in Lord of the Rings. As it fell, it lashed out with its whip, hoping to kill Gandalf.

But unlike the Balrog, it WILL pass

...on.
You really got that from his name being Warg didn't you?

Pretty much!

You have to admit though, the analogy works.

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/7/78207/2524741-Cool_abbfab_1578124.jpg
It does have a certain ring to it.

We'll just have to hobbit gets used more often.

*groans*

My attitude for Pirate Bay is that many industries, corrupt or not, don't like having someone letting others be able to download certain things, like movies and games.

Yet I have this to say, there are some things that are uploaded onto the site that literally cannot be found elsewhere, like some games or music albums. I may not support people downloading movies and other things illegally, and I will pay for my movies and games, but when it comes down to something I can't find anywhere else I will download it. I support that freedom.

 

[Rainboq]

The attacks on Pirate Bay, like SOPA, PIPA and ACTA are a dying industry lashing out in any way it can, like the Balrog in Lord of the Rings. As it fell, it lashed out with its whip, hoping to kill Gandalf.

But unlike the Balrog, it WILL pass

...on.
You really got that from his name being Warg didn't you?

Pretty much!

You have to admit though, the analogy works.

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/7/78207/2524741-Cool_abbfab_1578124.jpg
It does have a certain ring to it.

We'll just have to hobbit gets used more often.

*groans*

You must be new here, get used to the puns, they're pretty commonplace on this website

 

[Atrocious Joystick]

Holy copyright infringement batman! Extraidition without a treaty? Dear lord, if I was an idiot I might think Cambodia is trying to score diplomatic bonus points and avoid a reputation as a country where you can flee to escape the law. But I'm not an idiot, so I see that this is obviously a ploy by the those dity yankees.

What's the calling code to Ecuador? I hear they know how to handle these things.

 

[Zortack]

And here we go again with pirate sympathizers acting as if the piratebay is somehow the good guy defending itself against the big evil corporations.

Please just stop this nonsense already. Piracy and copyright violations may not be murder, but they are still criminal. What part of this is so hard to understand?

Its like saying that I should not be hunted down and arrested for drawing dicks on somebody's house because the act isn't as evil as beating somebody to death with a brick. Its a stupid, childish argument.

Because what is criminal and what is not should never be re-evaluated? If questioning our laws is childish then believing the world and our values and laws should remain unchanging till the end of time is incredible shortsighted and stupid. I'd rather be a smart kid than a grown-up moron.

As far as I'm concerned the creators of the piratebay made a site that facilitates file sharing, which isn't necessarily illegal. This is basicly the same as putting the inventors of the crowbar or TNT on trial because these inventions also haven't been used exclusively for legal or harmless means. I question both the usefulness and morality of such showtrials.

 

[Arakasi]

Watch closely as all on-the-run criminals suddenly flee Cambodia for greener pastures.