Swedish Authorities Target Pirate Bay Again, Police Question Founder in Prison
… explained to them that The Pirate Bay was not hosted in Sweden between 2011 and 2012. The authorities dropped their suspicions a few …
… explained to them that The Pirate Bay was not hosted in Sweden between 2011 and 2012. The authorities dropped their suspicions a few …
… Mariefred prison cell later that day. According to ComputerSweden, Gottfrid and his alleged accomplices will now go on trial starting May … as further reading, researchers at Lund University, Sweden, have been commenting on the hacks and subsequent prosecution. Marcin de …
… to the IFPI, Sweden‘s music market grew by 13.8% in 2012, a period in which the rest of the … could only manage 0.2%. The labels are impressed with Sweden‘s performance and are now called upon by counterparts worldwide to tell … arrest against an administrator of Tankefetast, Sweden‘s #2 torrent site. The admin, known online as Freke, was raided by …
… was one of the longest established torrent sites in Sweden, if not the world. With its predominantly Swedish userbase, the site … a climax when authorities arrested man at his home in Sweden. The 25-year-old was reportedly a moderator on Swebits and between April …
… Gottfrid Svartholm was deported from Cambodia to Sweden. Initially it was thought that Gottfrid had been taken to serve the … also had other things on their minds. Once he landed in Sweden the authorities claimed Gottfrid had been involved in several instances …
Sweden has long been associated with The Pirate Bay. The site was founded by … to the point where the site’s only visible connection with Sweden was its .SE domain. This week even that connection was placed into …
… was made in anticipation of a domain name seizure in Sweden. The BitTorrent site suspects that the authorities are gearing up to …
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