Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij was arrested Monday at the Thailand-Laos border after five years of avoiding incarceration for his conviction in Sweden of illegally sharing copyright-protected files, according to news reports.

Neij was among the Pirate Bay co-founders found guilty in 2009 of having made 33 copyright-protected files accessible for illegal file sharing.

The Pirate Bay, which launched in Sweden in 2003, has enabled mass sharing of files and content such as movies, regardless of copyright status.

Neij, along with fellow Pirate Bay co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde and Swedish telecom owner Carl Lundstrom, were each sentenced to a year in prison and ordered to collectively pay 30 million Swedish kronor (about $3.6 million at the time) in damages to copyright holders.

After sentencing -- subsequent appeals were denied -- the co-founders went on the run. Warg was arrested in 2012 in Cambodia after local police exercised a warrant against him. Sunde was arrested in Sweden. Neij was the last Pirate Bay co-founder still at large before his arrest on Monday.

According to TorrentFreak, The Guardian and the Wall Street Journal, Thai police said that Neij was living in Laos but had made numerous trips to Thailand before he was arrested Monday by Thai police exercising an Interpol warrant. Neij's wife was with him when he was arrested. Neij is expected to be extradited to Sweden and serve his sentence.

Thai police said a US-based film group and the Swedish government asked Thai authorities to keep an eye out for Neij and had given them his photo about a month ago, the Journal reported.

Although Neij has been detained, it's unlikely to change much in the world of Pirate Bay. The site is still one of the most popular file-sharing services in the world. Even in countries where it is "blocked," users have created mirror sites that get around blockades.