The last free co-founder of The Pirate Bay, Fredrik Neij,
was arrested in Asian yesterday November 3rd. The 36 year old who moved to Laos with his
wife and children to escape sentencing was taken into custody after attempting
to cross the Laos border into Thailand.
Charges for “promoting other peoples infringements of
copyright laws” were filed against all founding members of The Pirate Bay in
January of 2008 but Neij has been eluding police for years until now. The other 2 founding members are Gottfrid Svartholm and Peter Sunde.
Although a May 2006 raid temporarily took the torrent search
engine offline, changes to their domain name were made to avoid permanently going
down. Even till this day, with the founders locked behind bars and all, The Pirate
Bay’s website is still up and running.
