Gottfrid Svartholm
Per Svartholm Warg gottfrid (aka Anakata ) (born 17 October 1984) is a Swedish IT expert, known as co-founder of the web host PRQ and co-founder of the BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay.
Parts of an interview in which Svartholm commenting on the raid on The Pirate Bay in 2006, are used in the films Good Copy Bad Copy and Steal This Movie. He is also a contributor in the TPB AFK documentation: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard.
Americas Dumbest Soldiers and Fredrik Neij
Svartholm was launched in February 2004, the site Americas Dumbest Soldiers. There, dead U.S. soldiers from the Iraq war have been illustrated and users were able to evaluate on a scale of 1 to 10, the stupidity of the way, as these soldiers have died. Fredrik Neij was responsible for the Internet access of registered in Mexico website through a line of the provider British Telecom. After Neijs information took someone from the U.S. State Department contact with British Telecom, which in turn turned to the head of the Swedish company, where Neij worked to take the side of the net. With regard to freedom of speech and parody the request was rejected. Finally, in May 2004 remote Svartholm and Neij the site, because it was causing too much turmoil.
The Pirate Bay
Gottfrid Svartholm founded in summer 2003 together with Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij file-sharing site The Pirate Bay. He also developed the tracker software Hypercube, with the Pirate Bay website and the tracker was operated initially.
Legal disputes
On 31 January 2008, the Pirate Bay operators Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Svartholm and Carl Lundström gottfrid (Managing Director of the former ISP from The Pirate Bay) were indicted on charges of having encouraged violations of third parties against copyright laws. The trial began on 16 February 2009. On 17 April 2009 Svartholm and his co-defendants by the Stockholm District Court were found guilty of having aided and abetted the distribution of copyright - protected material. The defendants were each sentenced to one year in prison and damages of 30 million kronor ( 3.3 million dollars).
The lawyers for the defendants appealed to the Svea hovrätt ( Court of Appeal, comparable Oberlandesgericht ) and demanded a renegotiation on suspicion of partiality by Judge Thomas Noström. Under Swedish law, the judgments are not final as long until all appeal instances have been completed.
In April 2009, Svartholm was the subject of investigations by the Swedish prosecutor who investigated his role in The Student Bay, a file-sharing site specializing in academic texts. Svartholm claimed to have no knowledge of the page. The page has been displayed by the Association for Educational Writers in December 2008 due to copyright infringement.
In October 2009, the Stockholm District Court Svartholm banned the operation of The Pirate Bay, despite the fact that he already was no longer living in Sweden and The Pirate Bay was no longer operated there.
Svartholm and his accomplices were sentenced in 2009 because of copyright infringement, each one-year imprisonment, as well as damages in the millions.
Arrest in Cambodia
On August 30, 2012 Svartholm was arrested at the request of Swedish authorities by the Cambodian police in the capital Phnom Penh, where he had lived for several years. Cambodia has no extradition treaty with Sweden, but the spokesman for the Cambodian police, Kirth Chantharith, AFP announced over with, "We will take and look at how we do the thing a look at our laws. " Subsequently, the Cambodian police let it be known that the Swedish government has requested the extradition Svartholms of an offense related to information technology.
TorrentFreak suspected that Svartholms arrest in connection with a loan of 400 million kronor ( 59 million dollars) for " Democratic development, human rights, education and climate change " is. The support was announced on 5 September 2012.
Bargaining in Sweden
Svartholm was extradited to Sweden, where he served his prison sentence in Marie Fred Prison. Against him was determined on suspicion of hacking in two cases, including the invasion of the Swedish tax office between 2010 and April 2012, and on suspicion of serious fraud. Until January 2013, none of these allegations could be proved.
Stand in June 2013 Svartholm was performed as a suspect in a Danish case were stolen from the millions of personal identification numbers from a police database. The Danish police requested a transfer in order to make it there before the court. It was later confirmed that Svartholm would handed over to Denmark, in timed relation to the outcome of the negotiations in Sweden.
On June 20, 2013 Svartholm was convicted in Sweden Nacka due to hacking and fraud and sentenced to two years in prison. Svartholms condemnation triggered many reactions. Approximately 2000 people demand his release on the "Free Anakata " Facebook page.