Gottfrid Svartholm - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki!

May 2024 · 6 minute read

Explore Gottfrid Svartholm net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! Per Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (born 17 October 1984) is alias anakata is an Swedish computer specialist. He is who was the co-owner of web hosting business PRQ along with co-founders of BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay together with Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde. In this article, we will discover how old is Gottfrid Svartholm? Who is Gottfrid Svartholm dating now & how much money does Gottfrid Svartholm have?

NameGottfrid Svartholm
First NameGottfrid
Last NameSvartholm
OccupationComputer Scientist
BirthdayOctober 17
Birth Year1984
Place of Birth
Home Town
Birth CountrySweden
Birth SignLibra
Full/Birth Name
ParentsKristina Svartholm
SiblingsNot Available
SpouseNot Known
Children(s)Not Available

Gottfrid Svartholm Biography

Gottfrid Svartholm is one of the most popular and richest Computer Scientist who was born on October 17, 1984 in Sweden. On October 9, 2009 Stockholm District Court ordered that Svartholm be disqualified from running in the Pirate Bay, despite the fact that he was no more residing in Sweden and that his Pirate Bay was no longer in Sweden.

Gottfrid has since been deported back to Sweden where he served his jail term in the Mariefred prison in Mariefred. He has also been investigated for two alleged instances of hacking, including breaking into the Swedish tax office between 2010 and April 2012, and is also suspected of serious fraud. As of January 2013, no charges had been filed for these matters yet.

Torrentfreak speculated that Svartholm’s arrest may have been connected to a 400 million kronor (at the time, approximately US$59M) two-year “democratic development, human rights, education, and climate change” grant from the Swedish government to the Cambodian government. The grant was announced on 5 September 2012.

The Swedish police first searched Pirate Bay on May 31 of 2006 in the hope that it is operating an illegal copyright business. The police confiscated servers, and interviewed its executives, including Svartholm. The 31st of January, the year 2008 The Pirate Bay operators -including Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundstrom (CEO of The Pirate Bay’s previous ISP) -were accused of “promoting other people’s infringements of copyright laws”. The trial started on the 16th of February, 2009. Svartholm together with Neij and Lundstrom and Neij an Lundstrom, supported Piratebay by saying that they didn’t make money from piracy as customers were not charged for their services, and instead depended on advertising on websites as a source of revenue. On April 17, 2009 Sunde along with his associates, were found in the wrong for “assisting in making copyright content available” in the Stockholm District Court. Every defendant received a year in prison. They received damages in the amount of $30 million SEK (approximately USD$4,222,980 or EUR3,390,317) and to be divided across all four of the defendants. The lawyers of the defendants have appealed in the Svea Court of Appeal with a request to have a hearing at the district court as a result of recent concerns about bias from the judge Tomas Norstrom. In accordance with Swedish law the verdict isn’t legally binding until all appeals have been considered.

Interviews with Svartholm discussing the police raid of May 2006 in The Pirate Bay are featured in Good Copy Bad Copy and Steal This Film. He is the primary focus in the film TPB AFK.

In April 2009, Svartholm was the subject of an investigation by Swedish prosecutors looking into his role in The Student Bay, a file sharing site specializing in academic texts. Svartholm claimed he had no knowledge of the site. The site was reported by the Swedish Association for Educational Writers in December 2008 claiming it violated copyright law.

Gottfrid Svartholm Net Worth

Gottfrid is one of the richest Computer Scientist from Sweden. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gottfrid Svartholm's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

Svartholm Warg co-founded The Pirate Bay in 2003. They were one of the Swedish anticopyright group as well as the think tank named Piratbyran (Bureau of Piracy) and then became an online platform that allows sharing of audio videos, software along with electronic games. Based on Svartholm, Piratbyran was involved with political campaigns that focused on protests, petitions and lobbying among other things as Pirate bay’s aim is “help people exchange information”.

Net Worth$5 Million
SalaryUnder Review
Source of IncomeComputer Scientist
CarsNot Available
HouseLiving in own house.

On 27 November 2013 he was extradited to Denmark, where he was charged with infiltrating the Danish social security database, driver’s licence database, and the shared IT system used in the Schengen zone. Awaiting his court trial, he was being held in solitary confinement. The court trial ended on 31 October 2014 and he was found guilty by the jury and sentenced to three and a half years in prison. He immediately appealed the sentence, but, fearing that he may try to evade his sentence, the judges ruled that he should be held in confinement until the appeal court trial.

In May 2013, WikiLeaks revealed Svartholm Warg collaborated with the organization for the 2010 release of Collateral Murder, the helicopter cockpit gunsight video of a July 2007 airstrike by U.S. forces in Baghdad. According to WikiLeaks, Svartholm served as technical consultant and managed infrastructure critical to the organization.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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As of early June 2013 Warg was named as a suspect in a Danish case, where millions of personal identification numbers were stolen from a police database. Danish police have asked that Warg be extradited from Sweden, so that he can be tried in Denmark. It was later confirmed that Svartholm would be extradited to Denmark, to undergo a similar trial to Sweden, the timing of which is dependent on the outcome in Sweden. On 20 June 2013, Gottfrid was found guilty of hacking and sentenced to two years in prison. This two-year prison sentence was eventually reduced to one year by appeal. In November 2013, Gottfrid was deported to Denmark and on 31 October 2014 was subsequently sentenced to three and a half years in prison for breaking into computers owned by CSC.

Who is Gottfrid Svartholm Dating?

According to our records, Gottfrid Svartholm is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of January 13, 2024, Gottfrid Svartholm’s is not dating anyone.

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After spending three years in different prisons from Sweden and Denmark, he was eventually released on 29 September 2015 and is ready to get back to work again in IT.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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HeightUnknown
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On 30 August 2012, at the request of Swedish authorities, Svartholm was arrested by Cambodian police in the capital Phnom Penh, where he had been living for several years. Cambodia has no extradition treaty with Sweden, but Cambodian police spokesman Kirth Chantharith told the AFP news agency “we’ll look into our laws and see how we can handle this case”. Subsequently, Cambodian police were reported stating that the Swedish government had requested that Gottfrid be deported in connection with “a crime related to information technology”.

Facts & Trivia

Gottfrid Ranked on the list of most popular Computer Scientist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sweden. Gottfrid Svartholm celebrates birthday on October 17 of every year.

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