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Title    Gottfrid Svartholm Found Guilty in Hacking Trial
Date    Thursday October 30 2014, @06:24PM
Author    n1
Topic   
from the if-he-wasn't-guilty,-why-would-they-arrest-him? dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/10/30/1650212

azrael writes:

TorrentFreak is reporting that Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm has been found guilty of hacking crimes by a Danish court.

After being arrested in his Cambodian apartment in September 2012 it took two years before Gottfrid Svartholm went on trial in Denmark.

The Swede and his 21-year-old co-defendant stood accused of hacking computer mainframes operated by US IT giant CSC. It developed into the largest case of its kind ever seen in the Scandinavian country.

The prosecution insisted that Gottfrid and his Danish accomplice, both experts in computer security, had launched hacker attacks against CSC back in April 2012 and maintained access to those systems until August that same year.

The defense claimed it was a case of mistaken identity and that others had carried out the crimes, remotely accessing Gottfrid’s computer after comprising its security.

All three judges and four of six jurors returned guilty verdicts. Two jurors voted to acquit after concluding that the remote access defense could not be ruled out.

Following his extradition from Sweden, Gottfrid has spent 11 months behind bars in Denmark. His Danish accomplice, who refused to give evidence to the police and maintained silence right up until his trial in September, has spent 17 months in jail.

Links

  1. "azrael" - http://soylentnews.org/~azrael
  2. "Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm has been found guilty of hacking crimes" - http://torrentfreak.com/gottfrid-svartholm-found-guilty-in-hacking-trial-141030/?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+(Torrentfreak)

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