Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Followed By $59m Swedish Aid Package For Cambodia

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Post by subsystem » Wed, Sep 05, 2012, 5:21 PM UTC

Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Followed By $59m Swedish Aid Package For Cambodia
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Post by cpach » Wed, Sep 05, 2012, 5:42 PM UTC

Here's hoping that some real, investigative journalist (i.e. not someone from Torrentfreak) will start digging into these events. Currently it's just an unfounded insinuation.

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Post by mtgx » Wed, Sep 05, 2012, 5:59 PM UTC

I knew this had to be about "foreign aid" somehow.

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Post by mistercow » Wed, Sep 05, 2012, 5:59 PM UTC

cpach wrote: post #2

Here's hoping that some real, investigative journalist (i.e. not someone from Torrentfreak) will start digging into these events. Currently it's just an unfounded insinuation.

It doesn't matter who does the investigation, so long as the evidence they find is reasonably easy to validate.

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Post by norswap » Wed, Sep 05, 2012, 6:03 PM UTC

Well at least he was not sold cheaply.

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Post by cpach » Wed, Sep 05, 2012, 6:08 PM UTC

mistercow wrote: post #4

cpach wrote: post #2

Here's hoping that some real, investigative journalist (i.e. not someone from Torrentfreak) will start digging into these events. Currently it's just an unfounded insinuation.

It doesn't matter who does the investigation, so long as the evidence they find is reasonably easy to validate.

Agreed. It will however take original research, which costs time and money. I reckon that's a bit of an issue for most blog writers (and of course that applies for lots of people that write for traditional publications as well).

Re: Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Followed By $59m Swedish Aid Package For Cambodia

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Post by revelation » Wed, Sep 05, 2012, 6:09 PM UTC

An aid package of 60 million dollars would be three times the amount they spent yearly on Cambodia in the last decade (with little variance). See [1].

[1]: http://www.openaid.se/en/countries/kambodja?year=2012

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 05, 2012, 6:14 PM UTC

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Post by mcantelon » Wed, Sep 05, 2012, 6:14 PM UTC

Ah, so the folks who were inexplicably sure that it had nothing to do with his Pirate Bay association were completely wrong.

The good news, I guess, is that Swedish prison will likely be a less heinous experience.

Re: Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Followed By $59m Swedish Aid Package For Cambodia

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Post by vannevar » Wed, Sep 05, 2012, 6:21 PM UTC

A more interesting question is, who is paying the Swedes, and how? They really don't have a dog in this fight, so whatever motivation they have, it hasn't been made public. Yet.