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November 21, 2013 09:37 pm GMT

Pirate Bay Cofounder to Be Extradited to Denmark Amid Hacking Charges

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The legal travails of Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, one of the founders of the infamous BitTorrent file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, continue

Svartholm Warg's native country, Sweden, has announced his extradition to Denmark. He is accused of hacking into the servers of a Denmark government contractor and stealing police files. His extradition will take place on Nov. 27, according to the Agence France-Presse.

See also: The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 10th Birthday With New Web Browser

Svartholm Warg, 27, is currently serving a one-year sentence in Sweden for a different and unrelated hacking crime. In April, he was extradited from Cambodia to face these allegations in Sweden, and was later sentenced to two years in prison, but an appeals court reduced his prison time to one year Read more...

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