p2pnet - rss feed: Return of the Pirate Bay
p2p news / p2pnet: Hollywood bragging notwithstanding, although The Pirate Bay is down, it says it’s a long way from being out.
And the guys at Mininova are feeling a lot more relaxed as well.
Here’s the word from TPB.
“SITE DOWN - WILL BE UP AND FULLY FUNCTIONAL WITHIN A DAY OR TWO.”
They go on:
“In the morning of 2006-05-31 the Swedish National Criminal Police showed a search warrant to Rix|Port80 personnell. The warrant was valid for all datacentres of Rix|Port80 and was directed at The Pirate Bay. The allegation was breach of copy-right law, alternatively assisting breach of copy-right law.
“The police officers were allowed access to the racks where the TPB servers and other servers are hosted. All servers in the racks were clearly marked as to which sites run on each. The police took down all servers in the racks, including the non-commercial site Piratbyrån, the mission of which is to defend the rights of TPB via public debate.
“According to police officers simultaneously questioning the president of Rix|Port80, the purpose of the search warrant is to take down TPB in order to secure evidence of the allegations mentioned above.
“The necessity for securing technical evidence for the existance of a web-service which is fully official, the legality of which has been under public debate for years and whose principals are public persons giving regular press interviews, could not be explained. Asked for other reasoning behind the choice to take down a site, without knowing wether it is illegal or not, the officers explained that this is normal.
“The TPB can receive compensation from the Swedish state in case that the upcoming legal processes show that TPB is indeed legal.”
As we reported yesterday, Mininova was feeling a certain amount of discomfort but, “Yeah, good news that they’re coming back :),” a spokesman told p2pnet. “Our DNS, which had some problems after TPB shutdown, is also working again. So are our IRC services.
“We ordered an extra server and the site is a bit sluggish after the extra amount of visitors.”
Head over to the Mininova blog for more.
Also See:
bragging - MPAA on ThePirateBay bust, May 31, 2006
discomfort - Police raid ThePirateBa, May 31, 2006
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June 1st, 2006 at 3:46 pm
good stuff but the Mininova link doesn’t work
June 1st, 2006 at 4:03 pm
yes it does
June 2nd, 2006 at 8:20 pm
I was under the impression that this was all a hoax….
June 3rd, 2006 at 6:49 am
The Police cover the camiers during there raid to get thepiratebay.org what are they trying to put on the servers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30HF-m_I6yY
June 3rd, 2006 at 7:14 am
What are the poice up to the only thing it make’s me think that are up to is no good ie that they are going to be planting evidence and dont want there to evidence of them doing such wrong doing.
June 3rd, 2006 at 10:51 am
what else is there to say?
didn’t take too long. same url. no change. database listings
look to be intact. business as usual.
except some of their legal threats have either “gone missing” or
haven’t been reuploaded yet.
guess who’s winning the battle? hmmm?
congrats, TPB!!!