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this is a bunch of BS. the founder of TPB were well within Swedish law and did nothing illegal. No copy-written content is hosted on TPB, just torrents.
Well, it seems tingsrätten and hovrätten did not agree with that statement.
They where however, sentenced for assisting in copyright infringement. The problem however, is that usually you need a crime to be an accessory to, to be sentenced. No copyright infringement sentence has linked to the judging of the TPB founders.
Indeed no copyrightable material is hosted on TPB, but they have made a huge profit (millions) and continue to do so offering links to material the masses want.

I dig the TPB (it's a great story Hollywood should ironically create a movie about) as it has forced the content industries hand to change and offer legal alternatives. I'm just not sure if it's right they have and continue to make millions off it?

"a crime related to information technology"
Props to the BBC for the last paragraph:

No copyright content is hosted on the site's web servers. Instead, it hosts "torrent" links to TV, film and music files held on its users' computers.

So they only facilitate breaking the law, they don't get their own hands dirty. If it were the Mafia, it would be called laundering.
I'm not arguing either way wrt whether what they did was against the law, I just applaud the BBC for having that much understanding of the issues involved (and choosing to include that information in the article).
Arresting the founders of TPB is just silly, only the user's are the criminals.
+1 for Cambodia for doing the right thing and not looking the other way.