Piratebay Raided/Down

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2006-06-03 01:41pm

Those are stories from 2005.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-06-03 01:43pm

Bounty wrote:Those are stories from 2005.

Then I'm very confused on how the Inquirer had the story on front page, but yes, I see now it's from 2005. DOsn't change the fact it seems this was a fake and all the changes mentioned in the stories are there.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2006-06-03 01:50pm

Ace Pace wrote:
Bounty wrote:Those are stories from 2005.
Then I'm very confused on how the Inquirer had the story on front page, but yes, I see now it's from 2005. DOsn't change the fact it seems this was a fake and all the changes mentioned in the stories are there.

Read the red text

Kojiro · Post by **Kojiro** » 2006-06-03 11:06pm

Molyneux wrote: If they were to then prevent anyone from searching for the term "X-Men 3", that would unfairly prevent any users from finding my hilarious parody. Tell me, Kojiro, do you have something against humor?

Of course I don't but I think it's more important to protect people's intellectual property rights than it is to protect people's rights to find humour easily. Unfairly is an interesting choice of term. Should I consider it unfair that I have to wait for customs while my bags are checked if they smell like marijuana, even if I'm not carrying any? I'll gladly accept the delay, the minor inconvenience if it makes true illegal activities harder. Perhaps it is unfair, but it is justified.

Of course if you can find a way to differentiate between the two files there's no problem. In your specific case it's going to be a *huge* script if it wants to compete with a full movie file, to say nothing of the fact the files would be differing types. I'm not so programming savvy I can suggest many other possibilities but I'm sure there's something more that can be done than what is. I'd be willing to let it go if *some* bad was going through with the legit but it's just not that way.

Xisiqomelir · Post by **Xisiqomelir** » 2006-06-04 12:30am

Some clarification:

1) Yes TPB really was raided.

2) Servers are up in the Netherlands based on backups (enjoy the new anti-Hollywood logo)

3) The scandal is HUGE in Sweden...

4) ...because no crimes were committed under Swedish law...

5) ...and because "cybercrime" police are a scarce resource. The ones involved in the raid (*50* officers) were all taken off active pedophilia investigations. So lots of papers and radio are carrying the story that child pornographers are going free because the *IAAs cannot keep their greed in check.

Xisiqomelir · Post by **Xisiqomelir** » 2006-06-04 12:40am

No edits in N&P? Links for everyone:

New Piratebay, "The PoliceBay"

CCTV view of the raid, till the police bag the security cams (Yay shadiness!)

English translations of Swedish news about the TPB scandal

English interview with TPB admin "Peter"

(Xisiqomelir will refrain from violating SDN policy, but wishes you all the best in not breaking local copyright infrigement laws!)

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2006-06-05 03:09am

http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3 ... e=20060602

"US government behind Pirate Bay raid"

Published: 2nd June 2006 09:08 CET

The American film and music industry rejoiced over the raid by the Swedish police on The Pirate Bay. But reports that the US government was behind the action against the Sweden-based file sharing site have now resulted in the Swedish government being reported to the country's Constitutional Committee.

The widescale raid carried out at hosting companies in Stockholm, Västmanland and Västra Götaland targeted one of the world's largest sites for sharing music, games and computer programmes.

According to Swedish Television's news programme, Rapport, the action was the result of contact between the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the White House.

The US State Department then turned to Stockholm, with a demand for Sweden to do something about The Pirate Bay.

In April a Swedish delegation consisting of representatives of the National Police Department, the Police Board and the Ministry of Justice travelled to Washington to discuss The Pirate Bay.

Swedish police and prosecutors were then given the go-ahead to act. According to one prosecutor the legal situation was still unclear, but the state secretary Dan Eliasson gave the order for the operation to begin, according to Rapport.

"I can guarantee that nobody from the Ministry of Justice gets involved in operational work in individual cases. Neither politicians nor civil servants," Eliasson told TT.

He said that the Swedish delegation and the US authorities simply discussed copyright issues and how to deal with file sharing in general terms, and did not focus on The Pirate Bay specifically.

"We have not had any demands [about The Pirate Bay] from the American authorities at a government level. On the other hand, there are often discussions at a civil servant level about the problem of file sharing and copyright breaches," said Eliasson.

"This happened here too, and of course the big file sharing sites were mentioned."

Eliasson also confirmed that the MPAA has lobbied the Swedish government many times.

"But that's not an American authority, it's an interest group. I have met representatives from the MPAA and they were concerned about the file sharing being run from Sweden. I can't remember whether or not The Pirate Bay was mentioned," he said.

The Centre Party's justice spokesman, Johan Linander, has now asked the parliamentary Constitutional Committee to investigate justice minister Thomas Bodström and others in office.

Linander says that American pressure led Swedish politicians to get involved in the police's operations.

On Thursday Bodström said that he found it hard to believe that anyone would try to direct the Swedish police or prosecutors to make arrests.

"But we have discussed how we should continue the work around the copyright issue," he said, referring to a letter urging the police to increase efforts against illegal file sharing.

Bodström was on a flight on Thursday night and was not contactable.

On Wednesday police arrested three men in their 20s following a report from the film and music organisation Antipiratbyrån. They are suspected of breaking copyright laws.

Louis Roper

Yeah, we respect the sovereignty of other nations...

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2006-06-05 06:16am

Row between PB supporters and government escalating

The row between supporters of a Swedish website accused of piracy and the nation's authorities is escalating.

A raid on The Pirate Bay site by Swedish police is thought to have been the catalyst for hack attacks on official websites.

The attacks are being investigated by the Swedish security service, its domestic intelligence agency.

Protestors took to the streets of Stockholm on Saturday to show their support for the BitTorrent search site.

Raid reaction

The Swedish government website was unavailable late on Saturday following an attack that, it is thought, was related to the raids on The Pirate Bay.

Although never entirely offline, the site was hard to reach for about nine hours, a government spokesman said.

The Pirate Bay describes itself as a search site for BitTorrent, a net technology that lets people share large files over the net.

It was raided by police amid claims that it was giving people access to copyrighted material.

Some 200 servers were seized and three men arrested in the action.

The day after the raids, the website of Sweden's police force was knocked offline.

The Security Police intelligence agency is now investigating both attacks.

Other official bodies in Sweden, including 21 local authorities and 31 organisations that deal with emergencies, were told to beef up defences on their websites to ward off attacks.

The Pirate Bay, which claims to have more than a million registered users, was back up and running soon after the raids as servers were moved to the Netherlands.

Street protest

In 2005 Sweden passed laws that ban the downloading of copyrighted movies and music but the country is also home to a sizeable group who believe the net should give people free access to media files.

Several hundred of these people staged a protest in Stockholm on Saturday to highlight what they saw as heavy-handed tactics by the nation's police forces.

Protests also came from other firms caught up in the raids.

Game Switch, which provides servers to support online gaming, said the police had mistakenly seized its hardware when it took action against The Pirate Bay.

"As a result of this seemingly irrational and disproportionate move by police, our entire business, in effect, has also been seized," said Christopher Adams, GameSwitch director in the statement.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2006-06-05 06:53am

More ammo for my conviction that the goverment is just a bunch of cunts.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2006-06-05 11:28pm

Xisiqomelir wrote:5) ...and because "cybercrime" police are a scarce resource. The ones involved in the raid (*50* officers) were all taken off active pedophilia investigations. So lots of papers and radio are carrying the story that child pornographers are going free because the *IAAs cannot keep their greed in check.

This blows me away. Why do raids like this involve so many officers? What the fuck are the colocation guys going to do, pull a network card on them?

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2006-06-06 03:55am

Uraniun235 wrote:
Xisiqomelir wrote:5) ...and because "cybercrime" police are a scarce resource. The ones involved in the raid (*50* officers) were all taken off active pedophilia investigations. So lots of papers and radio are carrying the story that child pornographers are going free because the *IAAs cannot keep their greed in check.
This blows me away. Why do raids like this involve so many officers? What the fuck are the colocation guys going to do, pull a network card on them?

Nothing shows success like excess.