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On the heels of the Pirate Bay co-founder's arrest in Cambodia, along with the Swedish government's requests of his extradition -- news came out today that the Southeast Asian country is set to receive $59.4 million in aid from Sweden, according to The Next Web.

Although neither country is pointing to Gottfrid Svartholm Warg's predicament as a reason for the aid, it does come at a coincidental time.

Cambodian police arrested Warg last week in the country's capital. The arrest is believed to be related to his trouble with Swedish courts, which found him, along … Read more

Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg will be deported from Cambodia, according to a report.

A Cambodian police official today announced that Warg will be deported "based on our immigration law." Reuters, which was first to report on the story, said the representative, Kirth Chantharith, claimed the decision was made after holding discussions with officials in Sweden.

Warg was arrested Thursday by Cambodian police in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital. The arrest is believed to relate to his trouble with Swedish courts, which found him, along with his three Pirate Bay cohorts, guilty in 2009 of creating 33 … Read more

Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, who disappeared while facing a jail sentence and hefty fine in Sweden for aiding in copyright infringement, has been arrested in Cambodia, according to a report.

Warg was arrested on Thursday by Cambodian police in Phnom Penh, reports TorrentFreak, which points in its story to a piece in Swedish-language newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

The reason for the arrest has not been officially announced by Swedish or Cambodian authorities, TorrentFreak reported. Borrowing from the SvD report, it quotes Warg's lawyer, Ola Salomonsson, as saying, "As far as I understand it is because he is … Read more

In the continuing fight against copyright infringement, U.K. authorities sentenced the owner of Surfthechannel.com to four years in prison today.

Anton Vickerman, 38, who founded Surfthechannel -- a Web site that offered users links to streaming pirated material -- was convicted of two counts of conspiracy to facilitate copyright infringement, according to the Guardian. The sentencing came after an eight-week trial in June.

The way Surfthechannel worked was it let users search for movies or TV shows and then provided them with a list of links to both legal and pirated material. Essentially, the site acted like a … Read more

Despite court cases in the Netherlands and the U.K. forcing ISPs to place blocks on their systems to prevent customer access to The Pirate Bay, the blocks may ultimately prove futile, according to data seen by the BBC and others.

One major U.K. broadband provider said peer-to-peer traffic on its network returned to "just below normal" only a week after it was forced to block customers' access.

But in the days following the court decision in late April, traffic had reached record levels as a result of the increased media coverage. This backs up earlier claims … Read more

The U.K. government has said it is to abandon legislative plans to block copyright-infringing Web sites -- proposals reminiscent of the draft Stop Online Piracy Act ("SOPA") bill put before the U.S. House of Representatives late last year.

Does that mean an end to site blocking? Of course not. The courts just don't need the extra helping hand to make it happen any more.

Earlier this week, the U.K. Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), said the government will seek to remove two crucial sections of the Digital Economy Act that would have … Read more

British Telecom became the final broadband provider in the U.K. to block customer access to the The Pirate Bay following an April court order forcing the move.

From about 4 a.m. PT Tuesday (noon British Summer Time), more than 6 million BT customers were faced with a "site blocked" message when trying to access the Magnet-link sharing site.

Some users were surprised to find that Web addresses and IP addresses that still worked on other broadband providers' networks threw up a "blocked" message on BT's system.

It later became clear that BT had … Read more

Censorship is a slippery slope. The United Kingdom: my home. Case in point.

Nearly five years ago, the U.K. flipped the Web censorship switch. Most U.K. residents didn't even notice. Designed by telecommunications giant British Telecom (BT), "Cleanfeed" was used to filter out child abuse imagery, and it did so with great success.

Users would not see a notice or a startling warning about the content they had inadvertently accessed or had tried to reach. The page just wouldn't load.

In 2007, Home Office minister Vernon Coaker ordered all U.K. ISPs to subscribe to Cleanfeed … Read more

TalkTalk closed off access to file-sharing Web site The Pirate Bay yesterday, after being told to do so by a High Court in April.

"TalkTalk can confirm that it is blocking access to The Pirate Bay (TPB) following a court order to do so," the company said in a statement today.

The move makes TalkTalk the penultimate company from April's court order to block the file-sharing Web site. BT will be the last company to put the block in place, expected imminently. Sky, Everything Everywhere, O2, Be Broadband and Virgin Media have already put blocks in place … Read more