*Well, Peter’s in jail now.
*Not because of his public defiance of the NSA or anything, though. Oh no. Other reasons.
*An operational tip here: you wanna be Mr Internet Dissident, better do that from Moscow or an Ecuadorian embassy. You don’t wanna sneak home over national borders to see friends and family.
http://www.expressen.se/kvallsposten/co-founder-of-the-pirate-bay-arrested/
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founder-peter-sunde-arrested-sweden-140531/?
Peter Sunde was arrested today in a police raid in southern Sweden. The Pirate Bay co-founder was wanted by Interpol as he had yet to serve prison time for his involvement with the site. Sunde’s arrest comes exactly eight years after the police raided the Pirate Bay servers, which marked the start of the criminal prosecution against the site’s founders.
Former Pirate Bay spokesman and co-founder Peter Sunde was arrested today in a rural area near Malmö, Sweden.
Sunde was wanted by Interpol for more than two years, ever since the sentence for his role in the Pirate Bay website was made final.
He has been living in Berlin for quite some time, but still had family ties in Sweden, which he visited occasionally.
Earlier today, a special Swedish police unit tasked with tracking down criminal fugitives carried out a raid at a farm in Skåne. Local law enforcement reportedly worked in collaboration with the Polish police.
While details are scarce at the moment, the Swedish newspaper Expressen reports that the arrest has been confirmed by the Swedish authorities….