Pirate Bay co-founder TiAMO arrested whilst on the run in Thailand

The co-founder of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has been arrested in Thailand.

Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij, better known by his hacker name of TiAMO, was detained whilst crossing into Thailand from Laos. The arrest took place in the Thai town of Nong Khai. He had been living in Laos since 2012.

Neij had been in hiding since being convicted of copyright infringement in 2009. The 36 year old Swedish nation had been given a one-year sentence and ordered to pay £2.4m ($3.6m).


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Pirate Bay co-founder TiAMO arrested whilst on the run in Thailand
By Luke Morgan Britton, 4th November 2014

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The co-founder of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has been arrested in Thailand.

Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij, better known by his hacker name of TiAMO, was detained whilst crossing into Thailand from Laos. The arrest took place in the Thai town of Nong Khai. He had been living in Laos since 2012.

Neij had been in hiding since being convicted of copyright infringement in 2009. The 36 year old Swedish nation had been given a one-year sentence and ordered to pay £2.4m ($3.6m).


Fellow Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde was arrested in Sweden in June after two years on the run. His lawyer says he will now likely serve his eight-month sentence for copyright crimes.

Co-defendants Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundstrom are the only Pirate Bay founders to have completed their sentences. Svartholm had also been on the run after sentencing, but was found and arrested in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Svartholm is currently in solitary confinement in prison after being extradited from Sweden to Denmark in 2013 on new hacking charges. If found guilty he faces a further six years in jail.

Meanwhile, The Pirate Bay is still operational, despite.....

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Mr Curious wrote:

Digg3r wrote:Why people still use bit torrent these days too...

because it still works? why not?

Yeah, it's the best.

I have no doubt that Richard cannot recommend anything better.

Last of Pirate Bay Architects Is Arrested by Thai Police

Fredrik Neij, co-founder of the Pirate Bay file-sharing website, has been detained by immigration police in Thailand while trying to cross the border from Laos, Thai police said Tuesday.

Mr. Neij, who in 2009 was convicted of copyright violations, is the last of the Pirate Bay architects to be detained after dodging jail sentences by Swedish courts.

Police Major General Chartchai Ieamsang said 36-year-old Mr. Neij was arrested on Monday while trying to cross a border checkpoint in Nong Khai province, about 385 miles northeast of Bangkok, with his wife.

About a month ago, the immigration bureau received a joint request from a group of filmmakers in the U.S. and the Swedish embassy to keep a lookout for Mr. Neij whose travel records showed he had crossed the Thai-Laos border at least 17 times since 2012, Maj. Gen. Chartchai said.

The arrest was relatively easy, he said, as Mr. Neij was wearing the same gray T-shirt as in the “wanted” photo given to border guards.

Mr. Neij will be transferred to the immigration headquarters in Bangkok on Wednesday where the Swedish embassy is expected to pick him up and bring him back to Sweden, Maj. Gen. Chartchai said.

The Pirate Bay allows users to share files, including copyrighted content such as movies and music, through peer-to-peer technology. It is now one of the world’s largest and most resilient file-sharing sites.

A spokesman for Sweden’s foreign ministry said the embassy in Bangkok was closely tracking the case.

Mr. Neij and three Pirate Bay associates were sentenced to prison terms and ordered to pay multimillion-dollar fines by a Swedish court in 2009. After an appeals court largely upheld their convictions in 2010, Mr. Neij and two of his friends went underground, prompting Sweden to issue international warrants for their arrest.

Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, who along with Mr. Neij founded the Pirate Bay in 2003, was arrested in Cambodia and deported to Sweden in 2012 where he served prison sentences for copyright-infringement activities related to the Pirate Bay. On Friday, a Danish court sentenced him to three-and-a-half-years in prison for hacking into Danish computer systems.

The site’s spokesman, Peter Sunde, was arrested in Sweden earlier this year and is currently serving his sentence in a Swedish prison. Carl Lundström, a businessman who provided services and equipment to the operation, was......

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Damn, seems the whole fiasco was well worth it to him, overall.