Tuesday, November 4, 2014

The Pirate Bay's Last Free Founding Member Has Been Arrested

The last free co-founder of The Pirate Bay, Fredrik Neij, was arrested in Asian yesterday November 3rd. The 36 year old who moved to Laos with his wife and children to escape sentencing was taken into custody after attempting to cross the Laos border into Thailand.

 Charges for “promoting other peoples infringements of copyright laws” were filed against all founding members of The Pirate Bay in January of 2008 but Neij has been eluding police for years until now. The other 2 founding members are Gottfrid Svartholm and Peter Sunde.

 Although a May 2006 raid temporarily took the torrent search engine offline, changes to their domain name were made to avoid permanently going down. Even till this day, with the founders locked behind bars and all, The Pirate Bay’s website is still up and running.


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