{"id":89618,"date":"2012-09-04T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/pirate-bay-co-founder-busted-in-cambodia\/"},"modified":"2012-09-04T15:37:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T19:37:00","slug":"pirate-bay-co-founder-busted-in-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/pirate-bay-co-founder-busted-in-cambodia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Bay Co-Founder Busted in Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"v1PageContent\"> <div class=\"inline_right\" style=\"float: right\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.themis-media.com\/media\/global\/images\/library\/deriv\/32\/32685.jpg?resize=350%2C333\" alt=\"image\" width=\"350\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\"\/><\/div> <p><strong>Cambodian authorities will send Pirate Bay co-founder Warg to Sweden.<\/strong><\/p> <p>Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, one of the founders of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/94125-Pirate-Bay-Momentarily-Off-Line-Following-Shut-Down-Order\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pirate Bay<\/a>, 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.<\/p> <p>“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.<\/p> <p>Despite its troubles – <a href=\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/117287-DDoS-Attack-Scuttles-The-Pirate-Bay\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not all of them legal<\/a> – Pirate Bay continues to operate, and its founders have consistently denied any wrongdoing. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2012\/02\/peter-sunde\/\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wired article<\/a>, 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.”<\/p> <p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2012\/sep\/02\/pirate-bay-founder-arrested-cambodia\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a><\/p> <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":968690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"article_type":"","gamurs_wordpress_blocks_hide_tags":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7798],"tags":[],"internal-label":[],"invoiceable_action":[],"article_type":[],"coauthors":[{"id":794,"display_name":"Adam Gauntlett Legacy Author","user_login":"Karloff","user_nicename":"karloff"}],"class_list":["post-89618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.7) - 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Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, one of the founders of Pirate Bay, 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 - not all of them legal - Pirate Bay continues to operate, and its founders have consistently denied any wrongdoing. In a Wired article, 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","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/escapist-header-logo.png?fit=1200%2C675","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89618"},{"taxonomy":"internal-label","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal-label?post=89618"},{"taxonomy":"invoiceable_action","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/invoiceable_action?post=89618"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=89618"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=89618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}