Pirate Bay co-founder arrested in Cambodia

Pirate Bay co-founder arrested in Cambodia(bbc.co.uk)

19 points by deepakprakash 13 years ago | 10 comments

udp 13 years ago |

Props to the BBC for the last paragraph:

No copyright content is hosted on the site's web servers. Instead, it hosts "torrent" links to TV, film and music files held on its users' computers.

jebblue 13 years ago | |

So they only facilitate breaking the law, they don't get their own hands dirty. If it were the Mafia, it would be called laundering.

udp 13 years ago | | |

I'm not arguing either way wrt whether what they did was against the law, I just applaud the BBC for having that much understanding of the issues involved (and choosing to include that information in the article).

_delirium 13 years ago |

Earlier discussion of a different article on the arrest: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4464057

klrr 13 years ago |

Arresting the founders of TPB is just silly, only the user's are the criminals.

jebblue 13 years ago |

+1 for Cambodia for doing the right thing and not looking the other way.

rwmj 13 years ago |

"a crime related to information technology"

accarrino 13 years ago |

this is a bunch of BS. the founder of TPB were well within Swedish law and did nothing illegal. No copy-written content is hosted on TPB, just torrents.

paul9290 13 years ago | |

Indeed no copyrightable material is hosted on TPB, but they have made a huge profit (millions) and continue to do so offering links to material the masses want.

I dig the TPB (it's a great story Hollywood should ironically create a movie about) as it has forced the content industries hand to change and offer legal alternatives. I'm just not sure if it's right they have and continue to make millions off it?

loweschmidt 13 years ago | |

They where however, sentenced for assisting in copyright infringement. The problem however, is that usually you need a crime to be an accessory to, to be sentenced. No copyright infringement sentence has linked to the judging of the TPB founders.

mindjiver 13 years ago | |

Well, it seems tingsrätten and hovrätten did not agree with that statement.