Co-founder of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay was released from a Swedish prison on Monday.
Fredrik Neij was reunited with family and friends and expects to return to his home in Laos – where he lives with his wife and children.
Arstechnica.com reports:
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Living in Laos allowed Neij to flaunt a Swedish arrest warrant for a while. But in 2014, he was arrested by Thai authorities near the Laotian border.
All four of the Swedish men who created The Pirate Bay have now served prison sentences. Peter Sunde served five months last year. The site’s financier Carl Lundström was sentenced to four months of home arrest in 2012. Gottfrid Svartholm, who was convicted on both copyright and computer hacking charges, remains imprisoned.
During his imprisonment, Neij requested to have an original Nintendo in his cell. Swedish authorities denied the request.
Despite the criminal convictions, The Pirate Bay remains functioning today, although it has shifted Web domains several times.
