One of the founders of popular file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has been arrested under an Interpol warrant as he was crossing into Thailand from Laos.
Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij, who uses the alias TiAMO, was detained by Thai immigration police at a checkpoint in Thailand’s Nong Khai province, about 300 miles north east of Bangkok.
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