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Pirate Bay co-founder charged with hacking and fraud

by anons2011 on 4/17/13, 12:19 PM with 66 comments

• by np422 on 4/17/13, 1:16 PM

  There is a high probability that this is false accusations, just "because we can" from the prosecutors ...

  I'm from Sweden and I'm very sad to say that I don't consider Sweden to fulfil all the requirements for rule of law and legal security.

  Even if he is acquitted from the crimes in a trial he will have spent a few months arrested and we don't have a bail system here in Sweden.

  Both European committee for the prevention of torture and Amnesty International frequently criticize Sweden for the conditions for arrestees ... Yepp, that's where Gotfried is being kept locked up...

• by sergiotapia on 4/17/13, 12:52 PM

  >hacking into several Swedish companies and stealing personal data

  Are these allegations true? If so, I don't think this man deserves sympathies. The punishment may be too harsh in my opinion for these type of crimes, but they are crimes nonetheless.

• by belorn on 4/17/13, 3:22 PM

  This thing doesn't surprise me too much. The pirate movement has for a long time said that if you constantly call people criminals, the risk that they later actually will commit crimes goes up. I can understand if a person going through the circus called the pirate bay trial is slightly resentful of the Swedish state, and might not feel too respectful of its law.

  Still a crime of course, and still wrong.

• by niggler on 4/17/13, 1:03 PM

  > illegally transfer money from a bank.

  What does it mean to illegally transfer money? Is this a euphemism for stealing?

• by aus_ on 4/17/13, 3:05 PM

  PCWorld reports he "hacked IBM mainframes". [1] I would be interested in knowing the details of this. I am a sysprog for z/OS for a financial institution by day, and I have never heard of any sort of intrusion like this. Not that these systems are completely bulletproof, but I expect there is some fabrication in these statements. These systems are usually deep in the backend and obscurely buried in archaic and proprietary architectures. Unless Warg had any experience with this platform or some sort of inside help, I highly doubt this allegation.

  [1]: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2034733/pirate-bay-cofounder-...

• by technonono on 4/17/13, 7:05 PM

  tpb is great. But its founders? may not be so.

• by anonozc on 4/17/13, 12:45 PM

  One does not simply sue our hero