Fredrik Neij aka TiAMO: Captain of The Pirate Bay

Anyone who has used torrents to download music, films, television shows, and other files is very much familiar with a site called The Pirate Bay (TPB). It was co-founded by Fredrik Neij, also known as TiAMO and two other people.

Neij was born in 1978 and is a Swedish national. Aside from The Pirate Bay, Neij also founded a webhosting company in Sweden called PeRiQuito AB (PRQ) which coincidentally hosted the torrent site he is infamously linked to before they transferred it to another web hosting company which Neij is also involved in. Due to numerous raids, the TPB went offline several times, but Neij and company found ways to go back online.

In 2009, Neij, his TPB co-founders, and another person involved with the website were charged with assisting with copyright infringement and were found guilty after a 2 month trial. Neij was on the run for almost 5 years when he was arrested somewhere near the border or Thailand and Laos in November 2014.