Cambodia helps squeeze WikiLeaks

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PHNOM PENH - Earlier this week, Swedish national Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was deported from Cambodia to Thailand under the escort of Swedish officials who then forced him to board a plane to Sweden.

From his arrest in Phnom Penh two weeks ago up until Tuesday, Cambodian and Swedish authorities remained tight-lipped, saying only that Svartholm Warg was arrested for copyright infringement as a co-founder of major online file-sharing site, Pirate Bay.

Soon after Svartholm Warg arrived in Sweden, it became clear to his associates that he had been brought home for reasons beyond his one-year prison sentence and multi-million dollar fine for Pirate Bay's activities and that he could face charges related to his association with whistleblower website WikiLeaks. He was also charged on arrival with hacking tax records.

"At the airport, the government told him he is suspected of committing a crime, and he had no lawyer present," said Niklas Femerstrand, a friend of Svartholm Warg's in Cambodia who received the news from Peter Sunde, a Pirate Bay co-founder.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/NI14Ae01.html

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1. The Pirate Bay’s Founders Are Going to a Prison That’s Better than Your Life

... So the moral here is move to Sweden, start a massively successful piracy site, and the worst case scenario is locking yourself up in a pleasure palace more chicly decorated than where you came from.

http://gizmodo.com/5881212/the-pirate-bays-founders-are-going-to-nice-prison