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 Pirate
Bay co-founder sentenced to 42 months in jail in Denmark
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[November 01, 2014]
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A co-founder
of the Swedish file-sharing website The Pirate Bay was sentenced on
Friday to three and a half years in prison, in what the prosecutor
called Denmark's biggest-ever hacking case.
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 Gottfrid Warg, 30, also known under his hacker alias "Anakata", was
found guilty of hacking into the mainframe of IT provider CSC in
Denmark, accessing the Danish Civil Registration System and local
police's criminal register in 2012.
When sentencing, the Court of Frederiksberg in Copenhagen said the
attack was systematic, intensive and took place over a long period
of time.
It said in a news release on Friday significant amounts of highly
sensitive personal information had been downloaded in the hacking
campaign.
Warg's accomplice, a 21-year-old Dane who successfully applied for
his name not to be made public, was sentenced to six months in
prison for complicity in a hacking attempt made by Warg in February
2012 but walked free from the court as he had already served 17
months in pre-trial detention.
The Pirate Bay, launched in 2003, provided links to music and movie
files stored on other users' computers. Swedish subsidiaries of
prominent music and film companies had taken the company to court,
claiming damages for lost revenue.
Warg has been in pre-trial detention in Denmark since November 2013,
when he was extradited from Sweden after serving a jail sentence
there.
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In Sweden Warg had been convicted of copyright theft due to his
involvement in The Private Bay, and separately for hacking the
mainframe of IT consulting firm Logica, which did work for the
Swedish government and a bank.
Warg was arrested in Cambodia in 2012 and was extradited to Sweden
to face the charges there.
(Reporting by Annabella Pultz Nielsen and Teis Hald Jensen; editing
by Andrew Roche)
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