ThePirateBay.org Raided - Servers Seized

[Lazybones]

http://digg.com/technology/ThePirateBay.org_Raided_-_Servers_Seized

Should be interesting to see how this unfolds and they have always claimed that what they where doing was 100% legal in Sweden.

[Melbosa]

I noticed TVTorrents is down today as well... wonder if they are connected (well went down sometime yesterday).

[Melbosa]

hmmm check out there site: http://www.thepiratebay.org/

[Melbosa]

Incase anyone is scared:

SITE DOWN


In the morning of 2005-05-31 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 rack where the TPB servers and other servers are hosted. All servers in the rack were clearly marked as to which sites run on each. The police took down all servers in the rack, 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.

Rix|Port80 is one of Swedens top ten IP-transit operators.
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[Mr. Analog]

Well now, that sucks.

[Lazybones]

An interview with WiredFire has been posted
http://wiredfire.org/index.php?q=node/63

[Tom]

To me, it sounds as if theres nothing really to be scared about, and once they are cleared, they get their hardware back, and get to keep going.

[Lazybones]

According to this they will be back online and fully restored within about two days

[Darren Dirt]

The Digg.com link has hundreds of comments, and most of them are (amazingly) intelligent and/or reasonably articulate nuggets of wisdom and/or baseless opinions.

[Zapata Prime]

They are back up for your "semi-legitimate" downloading!!

SYL

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