Today it has been reported that the swedish bittorrent tracker, The Pirate Bay, was raided and shutdown by swedish police.
ThePirateBay.org had become one of the premier BitTorrent trackers, filling the void the ensured after the demise of SuprNova.org.
Details are still sketchy but sometime this morning ThePirateBay.org was raided by police, and the servers seized, meaning that the PirateBays tracker is offline and will remain offline for the time being. Whether this will keep ThePirateBay.org offline indefinitely is another matter. The Police also arrested 3 people, aged 22, 24 and 28, who were directly involved with ThePirateBay.org
The Swedish police also seized the “Pirate Party” servers, a swedish political party created to represent the file-sharing community politically (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party)
Up-to-date details are being posted on the “current event” page on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay
More News:
http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3955&date=20060531
http://wiredfire.org/index.php?q=node/63
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Sure is a sad day hopefully they can put up a fight however…
Its interesting to note that after the shutdown the total bandwidth consumption of Stockholm decreased noticably. Shows how popular the tracker was ( see http://stats.autonomica.se/mrtg/sums/Stockholm_GE.html)
The Pirate Bureau has setup a temporary blog where they will be details events as they occur unfortunately (for me at least) its in swedish. See http://piratbyran.blogspot.com/ for more info.
Find more bittorrent sites:
http://www.zeropaid.com/php/links/?id=2
hahahaha. great news.
@Gunboat…..what so great about them being taken offline fool? You sound like a dumbass. Thepiratebay.org was one of the largest BT sites and I hope they fight this and can countersue if there is any way possible.
They have been thumbing their nose at the media companies for a long time but I think this will backfire on sweedish authorities because that is NOT america and the sweedish people do not look on filesharing as a crime.
Have your laugh now but later on I hope you choke on your laughter!
from what i understand about swedish law the pirate bay was not breaking the law. they didnt host any copyrighted content on thier servers they only provided the torrents. its a shame it really is.
This will be an interesting story to follow. But lets be real there are plenty of other options in BT downloads sites. Just look at the zp list loads to choose from.
TorrentSpy is better anyways…….not that that makes it all good. And yes as Dub pointed out for those looking for alternatives…..nks/?id=2
http://www.zeropaid.com/php/li
Yes plenty of other options Jorge but I liked Pirate Bay. Here’s looking to their return.
Make that Two of us that want TPB to return! It was more than just a BT site. I felt that they really cared about the filesharing community and wanted to make a difference. They were always updating their site and even added english to the site….it used to be all in dutch.
Piratebay is overglorified and if you really think about it sucks ass as there are plenty of alternatives that are so much better.
The MPAA is gloating:
http://www.mpaa.org/press_releases/2006_05_31.pdf
“Swedish Authorities Sink Pirate Bay”
At least someone is fighting back:
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/6466/MPAA+v+Shawn+Hogan%3A+The+Zeropaid+Interview
@monea…that is just your opinion! That site had content you could not get anywhere else besides the edonkey network! It does NOT suck ass.
You do have to admire the fact that these guys even went so far as to form their own POLITICAL PARTY! Instead of doing nothing they decided to act and make their opinions heard. God bless em’.
i hated using pirate bay too the search engine blew chunks. however i still view this as a serious defeat because of what they stood for. i just dont see how this one is going to hold up though they pretty much are immune
Pix of the raid.
http://82.99.25.142/prq/
From http://thepiratebay.org
Quote:
SITE DOWN – WILL BE UP AND FULLY FUNCTIONAL WITHIN A DAY OR TWO
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.
http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=22898
Oh no! Now we won’t be able to get torrent links……apart from one of the other 20 torrent sites.
What a complete waste of police time….are swedish streets free of crime?