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June 2, 2014 06:52 am GMT

Pirate Bay Cofounder Arrested in Sweden

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After almost two years of evading authorities, Pirate Bay file sharing site co-founder Peter Sunde was arrested in Sweden on Saturday

Sunde had been on the run after being sentenced to serve one year in prison for copyright violations back in 2009, with subsequent appeals failing to remove the requirement of prison time from his sentence

See also: Pirate Bay Co-Founder Wants to Build NSA-Proof Messaging App

Originally ordered to pay millions in fines, along with three co-defendants, Fredrik Neij, Carl Lundström, and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Sunde's sentence was later reduced and the fines were increased Read more...

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