p2pnet - rss feed: Police raid ThePirateBay
p2p news / p2pnet: Sweden’s ThePirateBay.org is down and although TPB and Mininova, “aren’t really comparable, this is a worrying situation,” a mininova spokesman told p2pnet, “especially since our DNS and IRC services are hosted at PRQ, TPB’s data center.”
Hollywood has been targeting torrent sites for some time with TPB remaining online, the best efforts of the Big Six studios’ MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) notwithstanding.
Torrentspy, one of the sites hit, is currently claiming the MPAA paid a hacker $15,000 to steal email and trade secrets.
The cartels routinely use local enforcement agencies as industry cops and, “Approximately 50 police participated in the raid, which placed into custody two PirateBay.org personnel,” says Slyck.
Meanwhile, “The police right now is taking all of our servers, to check if there is a crime there or not (they are actually not sure),” the story has site’s brokep saying, and, “The uncertainty on the part of the police may stem from the fact ThePirateBay.org’s servers only host .torrent files, not actual copyrighted material,” it states, going on:
“As a tracker, ThePirateBay.org’s function is to index .torrent files and to direct BitTorrent traffic and maintain the swarm (uploads and downloads.) The downloaded .torrent file contains all the necessary information to locate and download the queried file. The legality of indirectly linking to copyrighted material has yet to be tested by Swedish courts.
“Whether this will keep ThePirateBay.org offline indefinitely is another matter.”
However, the TPB spokesperson doesn’t seem to be in any doubt.
Says brokep, “We are not sure when it will return, but we are moving it to another country if necessary.”
“According to The Pirate Party, a Swedish copyright reform organization, the raid also seized Piratbyrån’s (the Pirate Bureau) servers,” adds Slyck. “Piratbyrån is a educational and quasi-political organization which performs a public service role similar to The Pirate Party.”
Also See:
paid a hacker - MPAA hacked Torrentspy, May 25, 2006
Slyck - ThePirateBay.org Raided - Servers Seized, May 31, 2006
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May 31st, 2006 at 3:00 pm
this is probbaly another hoax because why hasn’t the Antipiratbyrån (swedish) been screaming we got them
May 31st, 2006 at 3:02 pm
sorry i ment say to swedish riaa
May 31st, 2006 at 3:13 pm
weather it’s a hoax or not Pirate Bay is down.
Rick
May 31st, 2006 at 3:48 pm
No hoax, several swedish newspapers are quoting police and antipiracy representatives.
The Pirate Bay are not breaking any laws at this moment, so this will get interesting.
May 31st, 2006 at 4:19 pm
APB is screaming about it this time.
May 31st, 2006 at 4:26 pm
Funny how they’re not raiding or suing Google:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=sith+filetype%3Atorrent
May 31st, 2006 at 4:36 pm
Why don’t people and politicians the world over wake up to the fact entertainment cartels, Mickey Mouse, are able to commandeer entire governments and their police forces. This is outrageous and flies in the face of anyone claiming their country is sovereign.
May 31st, 2006 at 5:23 pm
June 6,2006 ,get ready…cause the end times are coming for tech and humanity….
May 31st, 2006 at 7:21 pm
The problem with that is that there is a two, and a couple of zeros.
May 31st, 2006 at 10:20 pm
funny
sue the ones that make no money and let the ones that are rich continue.
June 1st, 2006 at 12:27 am
It is the American way….
June 1st, 2006 at 2:04 am
I just tried to go to the site its down !! really sad isint it
June 1st, 2006 at 1:17 pm
Check out http://thepiratebay.org/
Freedom prevails, power to the people for this!
June 1st, 2006 at 6:39 pm
Google is just indexing the torrent files where the pirate bay is hosting them. Theres a big difference there. Both are legal in Sweden I thought though.
June 2nd, 2006 at 3:32 am
I’m getting the same and have been since yesterday (The 31st)
June 2nd, 2006 at 11:18 am
I suspect the Pirate Bay will be up an running again very soon - I also suspect ALL the torrents will be moved to other trackers. I also suspect that MOST of the copyright material “stolen” via BitTorrent trackers would not have been bought by the so called “offenders” anyway, I suggest very few so they do not represent a loss of sales to the over greedy industries anyway. Secondly: what is the legal standing of people downloading music from torrent sites for which they already hold either a an old fashioned vynil or broken CD copy? (I believe this entitles the owner to make as many copies for his/her own use in perpeuity) and do the punishments for this include life in prison or dinner with Robert Mugabe? Also what evidence do the authorities have that people haven’t just downloaded a file to try - then bought a pukka copy afterwards? Next: what is the position of people who pay to download music - then accidently wipe it or lose their MP3 players, crash their hard disc, etc. Does the music industry expect them to buy the material again and if so is this not blatant racatering on their behalf? Finally - what is the legal position on people recording off a DAB or DVB transmission for later viewing/listening via their PC’s, since recording a television programme onto VHS tape is not an infringement of copyright or nearly everybody in the entire world would have to be taken to court, including the gloating peeps from MPAA - how ironinc would that be!!!
Cheers
Clockmender
June 2nd, 2006 at 6:33 pm
and tracking what we do and who we are? not very difficult I would imagine and will we get snared inth eir trap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 3rd, 2006 at 10:47 am
I see The Pirate Bay is back up today - well done Anakarta et al - this is one in the eye for the gloating MPAA goons
May the force be with you……
Clockmender.
June 7th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
I wouldn’t worry, I think it is just their server is overloaded or some other cause. This has happened numerous times in the past month as seeledrs popularity has ballooned. Maybe they need more bandwidth/better servers and/or cannot afford it.
It usually comes back online though.