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Teen convicted for beating Reinfeldt’s son

A 17-year-old boy has been convicted of assault after hitting Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's son Gustaf with a bottle in a fight in central Stockholm last November.

Published: 1 September 2012 15:40 CEST

The boy has been sentenced to community service in a ruling welcomed by the Reinfeldt family lawyer Elisabeth Massi Fritz.

“The crime was serious and could have led to serious consequences for my client,” she told the Expressen daily.

Gustaf Reinfeldt was attacked when he left a private party in the Stureplan area of central Stockholm last November. The PM’s son was 18-years-old at the time.

His assailant admitted to Stockholm District Court that he had hit him in the head with a beer bottle although denied having kicked him.

According to Expressen, the teenager claimed that the attack was some form of “revenge” because two of his friends has previously been assaulted.

Reinfeldt junior fell to the ground and lost consciousness in the attack.

Gustaf Reinfeldt gained media attention in March after landing a part-time job at conservative think-tank Timbro. In February he took his political bow after being elected as chair of the Moderate Party youth league in Solna.

The PM’s son has previously featured in the media for inviting his friends in August 2011 to come and have a burger at his then employer, US chain McDonald’s.

In February 2009, he joined a Facebook group “Free The Pirate Bay”, taking a highly publicised stand in favour of the controversial founders of the popular file sharing site ahead of their trial for copyright violations.

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PIRATE BAY

Sweden now owns Pirate Bay domain names

The Swedish state became the unlikely new owner of two domain names used by The Pirate Bay after a court ruling on Tuesday.

Published: 19 May 2015 14:31 CEST
Sweden now owns Pirate Bay domain names
The Swedish state now owns two Pirate Bay domain names. Photo: Vilhelm Stokstad/TT

In its ruling the Stockholm district court awarded Sweden the domain names piratebay.se and thepiratebay.se. 

The case marked the first time a Swedish prosecutor had asked for a web address to be wiped off the face of the internet, Dagens Nyheter reports. 

“A domain name assists a website. If the site is used for criminal purposes the domain name is a criminal instrument,” prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad told the Swedish daily earlier this year. 

Sweden’s Internet Infrastructure Foundation, which controls the Swedish top level domain .se, opposed the prosecutor’s move to prohibit any future use of the two Pirate Bay addresses.

The court agreed that the foundation had not done anything wrong and conceded that it could not force the group to block certain domain names, Dagens Nyheter reports. But by awarding the addresses to the Swedish state the court effectively ensured that they will not be sold on to another owner. 

The file-sharing service was temporarily knocked off line in December after police seized servers hosted at a data centre in a nuclear-proof bunker deep in a mountain outside Stockholm.

But seven weeks later the resilient file-sharing behemoth was back on its feet and Tuesday’s ruling is unlikely to knock it off balance for long, as the court cannot prevent The Pirate Bay from continuing to run sites on other domains.

The Pirate Bay, which grew into an international phenomenon after it was founded in Sweden in 2003, allows users to dodge copyright fees and share music, film and other files using bit torrent technology, or peer-to-peer links offered on the site – resulting in huge losses for music and movie makers.

In 2009 four Swedes connected with The Pirate Bay were found guilty of being accessories to copyright infringement by a Swedish court. 

They were each give one-year jail terms and ordered to pay 30 million kronor ($3.6 million) in compensation.