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Aren't everyone's taxes and incomes meant to be public in Sweden ? Assuming he did file his taxes properly, this should be verifiable.

• johansch 12y ago
  Since they ran a multi-million dollar business for like ten years without "having any idea of how much money the ads brought in" (as stated over and over in the court proceedings) that is a pretty big assumption you made just there.
  • achamayou 12y ago
    I would have thought that court might have looked into this, and possibly added to the charges in consequence, but the coverage I can find doesn't mention it at all.
    • johansch 12y ago
      It was (rightfully) a pretty large part of the reasoning behind the ruling. But 99% of the internet fanboys/fangirls have no idea of this.
    • benologist 12y ago
      They've always covered their money trail, it's been a critical part of the illusion they portray where they're good people doing good things for nothing. Given that the rest of the internet at their popularity level manages to generate enough $$$ to cover thousands of employees, produce their own whatever etc, it's ludicrous to expect TPB's traffic to 'cover hosting' as is the popular rumor. A similar site, SurfTheChannel, was found to be generating ~$78,000 per month with order(s) of magnitude less traffic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfthechannel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfthechannel
    • Erwin 12y ago
      At least in Denmark, not paying e.g. $1 million in tax and especially if it's clear you didn't forget but conspired to avoid tax could be a far longer prison sentence than what this guy got away with. It's surprising this was not mentioned given the Scandinavian credit card operations where foreign credit card heavily used in the country were scanned to see if they belonged to not tourists but tax evaders.