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Pirate Bay cofounder and computer hacker Anakata freed.

Pirate Bay cofounder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been released from prison in Sweden following three years behind bars, we’re told.

Svartholm Warg, who went by the online handle Anakata, was sent down in Sweden and Denmark for various computer hacking offenses. He is best known, however, for cofounding the famed Pirate Bay torrent search website.

His release was reported by Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, and confirmed today on Twitter by Warg’s mother Kristina Svartholm.
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