Monday, September 3, 2012

First Assange, then Pirate Bay

Just saw a story about a co-founder of Pirate Bay getting arrested in Cambodia to be brought back to Sweden.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/09/03/tech-ap-pirate-bay-arrest.html

 I'm not sure how to interpret this, especially since he's only being charge for 1 year in prison in Sweden. That does seem like a relatively light sentence, but seeing this after what they did to Assange does seem to suggest Sweden is no longer as independent from North American influence. That's a bit sad, as Sweden has always been such a progressive nation when I comes to the distribution of information online.