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Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij (born 27 April 1978), alias TiAMO, [1] is the co-founder of The Pirate Bay, and the Swedish Internet service provider and web hosting company PRQ. [2] Neij was one of the defendants in The Pirate Bay Trial which began on 16 February 2009.
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- Co-founder of The Pirate Bay who was convicted of assisting copyright infringement
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Swedish activist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij (born 27 April 1978), alias TiAMO, is the co-founder of The Pirate Bay, and the Swedish Internet service provider and web hosting company PRQ. Neij was one of the defendants in The Pirate Bay Trial which began on 16 February 2009.
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In April 2009, the website's founders–Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm–were found guilty in the Pirate Bay trial in Sweden for assisting in copyright infringement and were sentenced to serve one year in prison and pay a fine.
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- 15 September 2003; 20 years ago
- Torrent index, magnet links provider
- The Pirate Bay
- Police Raid on The Pirate Bay
- Trial and Courtroom Charges
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The Pirate Bay is a Swedish website that indexes and tracks BitTorrent files. It bills itself as "the galaxy's largest BitTorrent tracker" and is ranked as the 73rd most popular website by Alexa Internet. The website is funded primarily with advertisements shown next to torrent listings. Initially established in November 2003 by the Swedish anti-co...
On 31 May 2006 the Swedish police organized a raid on The Pirate Bay in 12 different premises, confiscating 186 servers and causing it to go offline for three days. Upon reopening, the site's number of visitors more than doubled, the increased popularity attributed to greater exposure through the media coverage. The raid, alleged by The Pirate Bay ...
On 31 January 2008 Swedish prosecutors filed charges against four individuals they associated with The Pirate Bay for "promoting other people's infringements of copyright laws". One of the artists represented by IFPI, Max Peezay, withdrew from the case, decreasing his distributor's compensation demand by 120 000 SEK. Peezay hadn't been asked about ...
The four operators of the site were convicted by Stockholm district court on 17 April 2009 and sentenced to one year imprisonment each and a total of 30 million Swedish kronor (approximately US$3.5 million, €2.7 million) in fines and damages. The court found that the defendants were all guilty of accessory to crime against copyright law, strengthen...
In mid 2008 after the indictment had been served, it was discovered that the main police investigator in the preliminary investigation had started working for one of the plaintiffs, Warner Brothers, before the date of the indictment. Sunde's lawyer Peter Althin questioned the neutrality and reliability of the preliminary investigation in the event ...
Defendants
1. Fredrik Neij 2. Gottfrid Svartholm 3. Peter Sunde 4. Carl Lundström
Plaintiffs
The criminal charges against The Pirate Bay are directly supported by the following prosecution witnesses: 1. IFPI representing: 1.1. Sony BMGMusic Entertainment Sweden AB 1.2. Universal MusicAB 1.3. Playground MusicScandinavia AB 1.4. Bonnier Amigo Music GroupAB 1.5. EMIMusic Sweden AB 1.6. Warner Bros.Music Sweden AB 2. Antipiratbyrån representing: 2.1. Yellow Bird Films AB 2.2. Nordisk Film 2.3. Henrik Danstrup 3. MAQS Law Firm Advokatbyrå KB representing: 3.1. Warner Bros.Entertainment In...
After sentencing, the defendants decided to appeal the verdict of the first trial. The appeal started on 28 September 2010 and concluded on 15 October 2010. On 26 November 2010, the verdict was announced. In the verdict, the court found that “The Pirate Bay has facilitated illegal file sharing in a way that results in criminal liability for those w...
Support campaign
On 18 February 2009 the Norwegian socialist party Red began a global campaign in support of The Pirate Bay and filesharers worldwide that lasted until 1 May. The campaign was timed to coincide with the trial. Through the website filesharer.org individuals were encouraged to upload their photographs, as "mugshots", to "let the music and movie industry know who the file-sharers are." The site encourages participation urging people to "Upload a picture of yourself and show them what a criminal l...
IFPI website hack
The website of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) was hacked and defaced with a message to Håkan Roswall, the prosecutor in the trial. The website subsequently became inaccessible, possibly owing to a denial-of-service attack. It was shortly brought back online. Peter Sunde, one of the defendants, responded to news of the attack with the comment "Our case is going quite well as most of you have noticed. In the light of that it feels very bad that people are hacki...
Flower storm
During the ninth day of the trial, after the testimony of professor emeritus Roger Wallis had been completed, he was asked according to Swedish court procedures if he wanted any compensation for appearing in court. He declined this but commented to the court that they were welcome to send flowers to his wife if they wished. This was rejected by the judge but quickly caught on amongst supporters of The Pirate Bay following the proceedings via live feeds and other Internet services. A channel w...
"Summons" (PDF). 31 January 2008 (modified 24 February 2009), International Public Prosecution Office Stockholm (in Swedish)Sveriges Television 24 Direkt audio archive of the Pirate Bay trial Archived 2009-03-03 at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish)"Judgment" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-10-14. (408 kB) (Unofficial English translation Archived 2009-05-21 at the Wayback Machine commissioned by IFPI) – 2009-04-17, Stockholm d...- 17 April 2009
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Oct 4, 2012 · Citizen Media Watch. 45. On April 17, 2009, the four Swedish men behind file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay (TPB)—Fredrik “tiamo” Neij, Peter “brokep” Sunde, Gottfrid “anakata” Svartholm Warg,...
Mar 20, 2024 · Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij (born 27 April 1978), alias TiAMO, is the co-founder of The Pirate Bay, and the Swedish Internet service provider and web hosting company PRQ. Neij was one of the defendants in The Pirate Bay Trial which began on 16 February 2009.
Sep 29, 2015 · With Svartholm’s release, all of the original co-founders of the Pirate Bay are now free. Peter Sunde had been arrested after Svartholm, but released from jail before him after serving his...
