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| Pirate Bay founder will be deported from Cambodia, police say | Pirate Bay founder will be deported from Cambodia, police say |
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| Cambodian police say they will deport the Swedish founder of The Pirate Bay file-sharing website as soon as the country's interior minister gives his approval. | Cambodian police say they will deport the Swedish founder of The Pirate Bay file-sharing website as soon as the country's interior minister gives his approval. |
| The country's deputy national police chief, Sok Phal, said the decision to expel Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 27, came after visiting Swedish officials presented legal documents on Tuesday on the case against him. | The country's deputy national police chief, Sok Phal, said the decision to expel Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 27, came after visiting Swedish officials presented legal documents on Tuesday on the case against him. |
| Warg and the site's co-founders – Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde, and financier Carl Lundström – were convicted of encouraging copyright violations in 2009. | Warg and the site's co-founders – Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde, and financier Carl Lundström – were convicted of encouraging copyright violations in 2009. |
| Neij, Sunde and Lundström all had their one-year jail terms reduced to between four and 10 months on appeal in 2010. They were also ordered to pay nearly $7m (£4.4m) in damages for copyright infringement to music and movie companies. | Neij, Sunde and Lundström all had their one-year jail terms reduced to between four and 10 months on appeal in 2010. They were also ordered to pay nearly $7m (£4.4m) in damages for copyright infringement to music and movie companies. |
| Warg did not appear at the appeal hearing, with his lawyer claiming he was too ill. The court upheld his sentence in his absence. | Warg did not appear at the appeal hearing, with his lawyer claiming he was too ill. The court upheld his sentence in his absence. |
| The operations of the Pirate Bay were mostly shut down in Sweden six years ago, but the website has continued to operate elsewhere. | The operations of the Pirate Bay were mostly shut down in Sweden six years ago, but the website has continued to operate elsewhere. |
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| 20 Feb 2012 | |
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| Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was convicted of encouraging copyright violations in Sweden but left country before serving sentence | |
| Cambodian police say they will deport the Swedish founder of The Pirate Bay file-sharing website as soon as the country's interior minister gives his approval. | |
| The country's deputy national police chief, Sok Phal, said the decision to expel Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 27, came after visiting Swedish officials presented legal documents on Tuesday on the case against him. | |
| Warg and the site's co-founders – Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde, and financier Carl Lundström – were convicted of encouraging copyright violations in 2009. | |
| Neij, Sunde and Lundström all had their one-year jail terms reduced to between four and 10 months on appeal in 2010. They were also ordered to pay nearly $7m (£4.4m) in damages for copyright infringement to music and movie companies. | |
| Warg did not appear at the appeal hearing, with his lawyer claiming he was too ill. The court upheld his sentence in his absence. | |
| The operations of the Pirate Bay were mostly shut down in Sweden six years ago, but the website has continued to operate elsewhere. |