Cambodia arrests Pirate Bay co-founder

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From velvetfog:

A more detailed writeup is found on this English language Cambodian blog: --> Pirate Bay Founder Gottried Svartholm Arrested in Phnom Penh Cambodia | Khmer440.com

The U.S. Government involvement in the persecution of TPB is documented here: --> Cable Viewer

The Free anakata! web site is here: --> Free anakata

[jeigz]

dli nata pwde ka gamit sa PB?

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From: Torrentfreak

Pirate Bay Founder Will Be Deported, Cambodian Authorities Confirm

Following his arrest last week, it has now been confirmed that Gottfrid Svartholm will be deported from Cambodia. Following a meeting this morning with Swedish authorities, Cambodia’s deputy police commissioner said a decision was taken to kick the Pirate Bay co-founder out of the country. “Wherever he goes, we don’t know,” he said.

Last week, police arrested Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.

Svartholm was arrested in his $750 per month rented apartment above the Cadillac Bar on the riverfront. Some early reports suggested that perhaps he had been arrested for something unrelated to his activities with The Pirate Bay, but by Sunday that notion had all but disappeared.

“His arrest was made at the request of the Swedish government for a crime related to information technology,” a police spokesman confirmed.

With no standing extradition treaty between Cambodia and Sweden, some observers questioned how easy it would be to get Svartholm sent back to Sweden to face his jail sentence. But as explained in our article on Sunday, such matters aren’t an issue in Cambodia. There are few Kim Dotcom-style extradition battles there – when authorities want you out, that’s what happens.

Today we have confirmation that Svartholm will indeed be leaving Cambodia, sooner rather than later.

According to a report from the local Phnom Penh Post, this morning a meeting took place between National Deputy Police Commissioner General Sok Phal and Swedish authorities. Due to the lack of an extradition treaty, Sweden made a request for Svartholm to be deported. Cambodian authorities appear to have agreed.

“We will use the Immigration Law against him to deport him out of our country and Minister of Interior Sar Kheng will sign on the deportation request letter from the police commissioner soon,” said Phal.

In what TorrentFreak is informed is typical of the way issues like this are handled in Cambodia, General Sok Phal said although Svartholm would be deported, he didn’t know where the Swede would end up.

“We will have to just deport him, wherever he goes, we don’t know, but he has to be out of Cambodia,” he said.

Unless special arrangements are made it’s likely that Svartholm will end up at Cambodia’s deportation jail, 7 km west of Phnom Penh opposite Pochentong Airport. He is currently being held at an unknown location by the Ministry of Interior’s immigration department.

[voldemort]

Didto unta siya sa Ecuador or sa Venezuela, for sure maglisod gyud ang Swedish or US ug dakop niya. hehe

[kageron]

one by one they are being hunted lol

[high_heels]

Heres another torrent related news I just read from BBC. Our downloading days seems to be numbered! Wahuhuhuh....


This one is from BBC again:

Most file-sharers 'are monitored'

Illegal downloaders are likely to be monitored "within hours"
Anyone using file-sharing service BitTorrent to download the latest film or music release is likely to be monitored, UK-based researchers suggest.

A Birmingham University study indicates that an illegal file-sharer downloading popular content would be logged by a monitoring firm within three hours.

The team said it was "surprised" by the scale of the monitoring.

Copyright holders could use the data to crack down on illegal downloads.

The three-year research was carried out by a team of computer scientists who developed software that acted like a BitTorrent file-sharing client and logged all the connections made to it.

BitTorrent is a method of obtaining files by downloading from many users at the same time.

The logs revealed that monitoring did not distinguish between hardcore illegal downloaders and those new to it.

"You don't have to be a mass downloader. Someone who downloads a single movie will be logged as well," said Dr Tom Chothia, who led the research.

"If the content was in the top 100 it was monitored within hours," he said. "Someone will notice and it will be recorded."

Less popular content was also monitored although less frequently, the study indicated.

Marketing tool

The research identified about 10 different monitoring firms logging content. Of these, a handful were identifiable as copyright-enforcement organisations, security firms and even other research labs.

But about six of the biggest-scale monitors were harder to identify, as the companies behind them used third-party hosting firms to run the searches for them.

Why such firms wanted the massive amounts of data was unclear, said Dr Chothia.

"Many firms are simply sitting on the data. Such monitoring is easy to do and the data is out there so they think they may as well collect it as it may be valuable in future," he said.

Some firms alleged to be carrying out mass-scale monitoring have been accused of selling the data to copyright holders for marketing purposes.

"The data shows what content is popular and where," said Dr Chothia.

The study also revealed that so-called blocklists, used by some illegal file-sharers to prevent monitors from connecting to their computers, might not be much use.

"Many of the monitors we found weren't on the blocklists so these measures to bypass the monitors aren't really working," said Dr Chothia.

Hard evidence

Some copyright owners in Europe and the US are using IP addresses gathered by monitoring firms to apply for court orders obliging internet service providers to hand over the physical addresses associated with them.

They are then writing to individuals seeking recompense or warning of the possibility of court action.

But Dr Chothia doubts evidence gathered in this manner would stand up in court.

"All the monitors observed during the study would connect to file-sharers and verify that they were running the BitTorrent software, but they would not actually collect any of the files being shared," he said.

"It is questionable whether the monitors observed would actually have evidence of file-sharing that would stand up in court," he added.

Lawyers have previously cast doubt on whether evidence collected from an IP address can be used in court because such an address pinpoints the internet connection used for downloading rather than a specific individual.

[blu bizcuitz]

kung maclose man gani ang tpb...where do we go from here?

[i_the_mighty]

kani sila mga "pirata", mga heroes ni sila para sa kadalasan na mga tao nga sayangan palit2 softwares, games, movies og music. di man sa kill joy pero mao sad ni hinungdan nagkabati ang quality sa mga games na karon. pero mao sad nga tungod bati na og quality di na ganahan mupalit mga tao, mao dl na lang. baws2 ra.

[VinOKufuLa]

ang magdownload mapriso/fine sad...naa na daghan giproscute ani

[jaylordgoring87]

patay! wa na tay source sa mga pirate!hehe