Parts of an interview with Svartholm commenting on the May 2006 police raid of The Pirate Bay are featured in Good Copy Bad Copy and Steal This Film.
11 Facts About Gottfrid Svartholm
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Gottfrid Svartholm is a main focus of the documentary TPB AFK.
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In May 2013, WikiLeaks said Gottfrid Svartholm Warg had worked with the organization for the 2010 release of Collateral Murder, the helicopter cockpit gunsight video of a July 2007 airstrike by US forces in Baghdad.
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Gottfrid Svartholm Warg started the website Americas Dumbest Soldiers which listed deceased US soldiers in the Iraq War and asked users of the site to rate how "dumb" the soldiers were based on how they died.
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Gottfrid Svartholm Warg co-founded The Pirate Bay in 2003 with Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde.
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Gottfrid Svartholm created the BitTorrent tracker software Hypercube which was used to run The Pirate Bay website.
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In October 2009, Stockholm District Court ordered that Gottfrid Svartholm be banned from operating The Pirate Bay, despite the fact that he wasn't living in Sweden and that The Pirate Bay was no longer located in the country.
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On 30 August 2012, at the request of Swedish authorities, Gottfrid Svartholm was arrested by Cambodian police in the capital Phnom Penh, where he had been living for several years.
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Subsequently, Cambodian police were reportedly stating that the Swedish government had requested that Gottfrid Svartholm be deported in connection with "a crime related to information technology".
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Gottfrid Svartholm has been investigated for two alleged instances of hacking, including breaking into the Swedish tax office between 2010 and April 2012, and is suspected of serious fraud.
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On 20 June 2013, Gottfrid Svartholm was found guilty of hacking and sentenced to two years in prison.