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Pirate Bay co-founder charged with hacking and fraud

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Re: Pirate Bay co-founder charged with hacking and fraud

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>hacking into several Swedish companies and stealing personal data Are these allegations true? If so, I don't think this man deserves sympathies. The punishment may be too harsh in my opinion for these type of crimes, but they are crimes nonetheless.

He's charged, not guilty. I don't think anyone here could answer if it's true.

Re: Pirate Bay co-founder charged with hacking and fraud

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>hacking into several Swedish companies and stealing personal data Are these allegations true? If so, I don't think this man deserves sympathies. The punishment may be too harsh in my opinion for these type of crimes, but they are crimes nonetheless.

The indictment can be found here: http://www.aklagare.se/PageFiles/10239/AM_52124_12.pdf (Swedish. Save as, appears to be broken when viewed in browser)

A quick read-through seems to suggest that they have quite solid support for it. However, I haven't seen the investigation protocol (FUP) so I cannot say if the actual evidence is any good.

Re: Pirate Bay co-founder charged with hacking and fraud

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There is a high probability that this is false accusations, just "because we can" from the prosecutors ...

I'm from Sweden and I'm very sad to say that I don't consider Sweden to fulfil all the requirements for rule of law and legal security.

Even if he is acquitted from the crimes in a trial he will have spent a few months arrested and we don't have a bail system here in Sweden.

Both European committee for the prevention of torture and Amnesty International frequently criticize Sweden for the conditions for arrestees ... Yepp, that's where Gotfried is being kept locked up...

Re: Pirate Bay co-founder charged with hacking and fraud

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> illegally transfer money from a bank. What does it mean to illegally transfer money? Is this a euphemism for stealing?

They tried (and succeeded in one case) to transfer money between accounts, without authorization so illegally transferring money seems to be the correct wording?

Stealing does tend to be associated with physical theft?

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