Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm has been released from Jail. Gottfrid is also known as Anataka is the founder of the popular torrenting website, Piratebay. Anataka was arrested for hacking and copyright offences, and he has spent three years in both Sweden and Denmark prisons.
Gottfrid Svartholm and his family have decided not to have a public statement considering all he had gone through, but his mother has confirmed the news that the man is now free.
In 2011, Gottfrid was linked with the Piratebay website, but he denied it, but later received one year sentence for his involvement in the website. In 2012, Gottfrid was hiding away in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, but he was arrested again and sent back to Sweden to continue his sentence.
After his release, he was re-arrested again, after he was accused of hacking Nordea Bank, and another IT company, Logica. His case went to trial in 2013, and he was sentenced to another 2 years, though Gottfrid maintained innocence throughout the verdict, and decided to appeal the case.
The court agreed in part of his case, and reduced his sentence from two years to only a year. But that was only part of his problem.
Amidst different protests that the man be freed, Denmark also came after Gottfrid, and was extradited in 2013, he will be held in solitary confinement for weeks without weeks without end.
Denmark had accused Gottfrid of another hacking in the country. It was reported that Gottfrid hacked into mainframes of computer of another IT company,CSC. He denied the allegations leveled against him, reminding the court that Sweden already acquitted him of the accused charges. He was sentenced to 3.5 years.
But because of his good conducts while in Prison, Denmark let him go last month, and while he was happy to be free, he was picked up again by Sweden to serve his remaining months in their prison.
He was supported by the general public while in prison, and one of his favourite suporrters is his mom.