Gottfrid Svartholm

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Gottfrid Svartholm (2009)

Per Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (alias Anakata ) (born October 17, 1984 ) is a Swedish IT expert. He is co-founder of the web host PRQ and the BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay .

Parts of an interview in which Svartholm commented on the raid on The Pirate Bay in 2006 are used in the films Good Copy Bad Copy and Steal This Film . He is also a contributor to the documentary TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard .

Americas Dumbest Soldiers and Fredrik Neij

Svartholm launched the Americas Dumbest Soldiers website in February 2004 . Dead American soldiers from the Iraq war were shown there and users were able to rate the stupidity of the way these soldiers died on a scale from 1 to 10. Fredrik Neij provided the Internet access for the website, which is registered in Mexico , via a line from the provider British Telecom . According to Neij, an employee of the US State Department contacted British Telecom, which in turn contacted the head of the Swedish company where Neij was working to take the site offline. The request was rejected with reference to freedom of speech and parody . Finally, in May 2004, Svartholm and Neij removed the page because it was causing too much turbulence.

The Pirate Bay

Gottfrid Svartholm founded the file sharing website The Pirate Bay together with Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij in the summer of 2003 . He also developed the bit torrent tracker software Hypercube , with which Pirate Bay was initially operated.

Legal disputes

On January 31, 2008, the Pirate Bay operators Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström (managing directors of the then Internet service provider of The Pirate Bay) were charged with the allegation of promoting third party violations of copyright laws. The trial started on February 16, 2009. On April 17, 2009, Svartholm and his co-defendants were found guilty by the Stockholm District Court for aiding and abetting the distribution of copyrighted material. The defendants were sentenced to one year in prison and 30 million kronor in damages (around 3.3 million US dollars ).

The defendants' lawyers appealed to the Svea hovrätt (appellate court, comparable to the Higher Regional Court) and demanded a renegotiation on suspicion of bias of Judge Thomas Noström, as he was active in two organizations that campaign for the protection of copyrights - without having submitted this notify the process. According to Swedish law, judgments are not final until all appeal bodies have been passed.

In April 2009 Svartholm was the subject of an investigation by the Swedish Public Prosecutor's Office, who were investigating his role at The Student Bay , a file sharing site specializing in academic texts. Svartholm claimed to have no knowledge of the site. The page was reported by the Association for Educational Writers in December 2008 for copyright infringement.

In October 2009 the Stockholm District Court of Svartholm banned The Pirate Bay from operating, despite the fact that he no longer lived in Sweden and The Pirate Bay was no longer operated there.

Svartholm and his accomplices were sentenced in 2009 to one-year imprisonment and millions in damages for their copyright violations.

Arrest in Cambodia

On August 30, 2012, at the request of the Swedish authorities, Svartholm was arrested by the Cambodian police in the capital Phnom Penh , where he had lived for several years. Cambodia does not have an extradition agreement with Sweden, but Cambodian police spokesman Kirth Chantharith told AFP : "We will take a look at our laws and see how we do it." Then the Cambodian police announced that they were Swedish government has requested the extradition of Svartholm for an offense related to information technology .

TorrentFreak suspected that Svartholm's arrest was linked to a loan of 400 million kroner (around 59 million US dollars) for "democratic development, human rights, education and climate change". The support was announced on September 5, 2012.

Negotiation in Sweden

Svartholm was extradited to Sweden, where he was serving his sentence in Mariefred prison. He was investigated on suspicion of hacking in two cases, including breaking into the Swedish tax office between 2010 and April 2012, and on suspicion of serious fraud. As of January 2013, none of these allegations could be proven.

As of June 2013, Svartholm was listed as a suspect in a Danish case in which millions of personal identification numbers were stolen from a police database. The Danish police applied for a transfer so that he could be tried there. It was later confirmed that Svartholm would be transferred to Denmark , depending on the timing of the outcome of the negotiations in Sweden.

On June 20, 2013, Svartholm was found guilty of hacking and fraud in Nacka, Sweden and sentenced to two years in prison. Svartholm's condemnation sparked numerous reactions. Almost 2,000 people are demanding his release on the Free Anakata Facebook page. He was sent to Denmark as a prisoner where he was tried for a hacking attack on the CSC company. After serving the combined sentence in Denmark, which is possible due to the close legal cooperation between the two countries, he was released from custody on August 28, 2015 and immediately arrested again because Sweden had applied for extradition in June on the grounds that he was in Sweden serve another four weeks. He was not informed of the existence of the application. On September 29, 2015, he was released after more than three years in Danish and Swedish prisons.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.americasdumbestsoldiers.com. xclan.org, May 18, 2004, archived from the original on January 6, 2014 ; accessed on September 4, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b " TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard . TPB AFK . February 8, 2013. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
  3. ↑ Hypercube Tracker by Anakata . ThePirateBay.org. Retrieved September 21, 2013.
  4. ↑ Pirate Bay Future Uncertain After Operators Busted . Wired.com. January 31, 2008. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
  5. ↑ The Pirate Bay Trial: Official Verdict - Guilty . TorrentFreak. April 17, 2009. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
  6. ^ Pirate Bay lawyer calls for retrial , The Local. April 23, 2009. Retrieved February 21, 2013. 
  7. ↑ Tom Sullivan: 'Pirate Bay' founders convicted by the Swedish court . In: The Christian Science Monitor , April 17, 2009. Retrieved February 21, 2013. 
  8. ↑ Pirate Bay operator faces new probe . The Local (Sweden). April 20, 2009. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
  9. ↑ Pirate Bay Founders Banned From Running The Site . TorrentFreak . October 29, 2009. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
  10. ↑ a b Pirate Bay Swede sentenced for hacking, fraud
  11. ↑ Pirate Bay co-founder Warg arrested in Cambodia , BBC News. September 2, 2012. Accessed February 21, 2013. 
  12. ↑ Pirate Bay Founder Arrested in Cambodia , TorrentFreak. September 1, 2012. 
  13. ↑ Pirate Bay Founder will be deported Cambodian authorities confirm . August 4, 2012. Retrieved February 21, 2013. 
  14. ↑ Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Followed By $ 59m Swedish Aid Package For Cambodia . TorrentFreak. September 24, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
  15. ↑ Sweden grants 59.4 mln USD aid to Cambodia for social development - Xinhua | English.news.cn . News.xinhuanet.com. September 5, 2012. Archived from the original on September 18, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 18, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / news.xinhuanet.com
  16. ^ Snapshot of TPB . grez868. December 24, 2012. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
  17. ^ Svartholm Warg to be charged within a month . January 28, 2013. Retrieved February 1, 2013.
  18. ↑ Pirate Bay founder released from solitary confinement . TorrentFreak. December 9, 2012. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
  19. ↑ Karina Svensgaard (bt-ksv): Så mange data stjal hackere: Derfor får du ikke noget at vide - crime thriller . www.bt.dk. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
  20. ↑ Hacker charged with stealing from police databases
  21. ↑ Pirate Bay Founder Will be Extradited to Denmark . Torrent freak. Retrieved September 21, 2013.
  22. ^ Pirate Bay Founder Guilty of Hacking, Sentenced to Two Years in Prison
  23. ↑ Free Anakata . Facebook. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
  24. ↑ Pirate Bay founder released, re-arrested, to be sent back to Sweden
  25. ↑ Alex Hern: Last Pirate Bay co-founder released from prison . In: The Guardian . September 29, 2015, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed March 2, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Svartholm, Gottfrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anakata (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish co-founder of The Pirate Bay
DATE OF BIRTH 17th October 1984