"I was really easy to find, hiding underground was never something that I was aiming for," he said in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) thread on Reddit in May. And he and his friends wore YIFY-branded t-shirts around the University of Waikato campus. He said he "loved bragging about it" to friends and family. He said it was a good way to teach himself practical programming skills.ĭespite the illegality of what he was doing, Swery was never concerned with hiding himself from authorities. He started up YIFY Torrents in 2010, when he was in his first year studying computer science at the University of Waikato. In the online forum, the person claiming to be Swery revealed that he never thought of himself as a criminal, and providing tens of thousands of illegally-sourced movies for download was a "hobby" that he never intended to make money with. * Hollywood studios swoop on global piracy site in Mt Wellington * Archery champion allegedly behind global piracy site shut down by Hollywood studios
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