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Note to mods: This is just a news story.

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/intellectualproperty/0,71036-0.html?tw=rss.index

The Swedish website Piratebay.org was shut down Wednesday after police raided its offices, seized its servers and detained three men, according to the Associated Press and a message on the downed site.

"Pirate Bay was a huge source of pirated films for people around the world, and today they are no longer," said Kori Bernards, a representative for the Motion Picture Association of America. "This was one of our No. 1 targets."

Bernards said that the MPAA has been working with the U.S. and Swedish governments for several years in an effort to shut down Piratebay.org, which helps internet users find illegally copied software like movies and songs on the popular peer-to-peer application BitTorrent. Piratebay.org is the largest BitTorrent tracker, according to Alexa.com, which tracks website traffic.

The only page on the downed site relays details of the raid and claims that police also seized servers of the "noncommercial site Piratbyrån, the mission of which is to defend the rights of TPB (The Pirate Bay) via public debate." Piratbyrån, an organization which grew from Piratebay.org, promotes the idea of software piracy.
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;(

Please do not post other torrent sites. This is about the shutting down of a perfectly legal site. Mods just don't like torrent links around here.
 
Was bound to happen.
Can you blame them, they provided so much info on illegal torrent trackers. And I know they can hide behind some legal mumbo jumba about them not hosting anything illegal but just providing the info, but that's just BS. It was popular for one thing, and that is because of all the pirated suff you could download using the site.
Still though I can't blame the authorities for shutting them, I'm still sad. Sites like that are a good alternative if there is no demo to a game.
 
They'll be back from Davy Jones' locker, yaarrr!!

"Which corporation would stand for this?", asks Rickard Falkvinge, head of the Swedish Pirate Party. "Which corporation would stand for having the police raid their facitilies and shut down operations, before they were proven guilty of a crime? In this case, the Pirate Bay has commited no crime. They are disliked by large media interests, that's correct. But it's not illegal to be disliked..., and definitely not cause for the Police to raid and shut down one of the world's largest gathering places for our young generation."

"This is exactly the kind of raids the Pirate Party wants to put an end to", Rick concludes. "When society sends its police at the young generation for their listening to music and watching movies, it's not the young that are in error. It's society that needs to get a grip."
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Aww man! That was my favorite site too! ;( I guess its TorrentTyphoon now.
 
They've got a good point there.

This is pretty sad though, I don't generally pirate much, but every once in a while I turn to them for an old album or some abandonware
 
Yar, there will always be a torrent site, tis impossible to track and shut them all doon.

They probably have people all over the world that would eventually end up relaunching under a different site name.
 
clarky003 said:
Yar, there will always be a torrent site, tis impossible to track and shut them all doon.

They probably have people all over the world that would eventually end up relaunching under a different site name.
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Get rid of one and five more will spring up. Shutting down Suprnova proved that.
 
SimonomiS said:
They'll be back from Davy Jones' locker, yaarrr!!
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Lol, what a bunch of nut jobs lol...the pirate party...:LOL:
 
I saw from a few stories that 50 police officers were involved in the raid.

Don't they have something better to do... Like stopping illegal things from happening (torrent sites are legal in Sweden as long as they contain no actual copyrighted data)
 
Computer5k said:
torrent sites are legal in Sweden as long as they contain no actual copyrighted data
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Aren't movies copyright protected in Sviden? Isn't that exactly the reason why they were busted?
 
This is why people get away with bigger crimes, cops are busy doing petty arrests.
 
Shakermaker said:
Aren't movies copyright protected in Sviden? Isn't that exactly the reason why they were busted?
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The site only hosted .torrent files. These files are used to download (non-)copyrighted material from sources other than TPB, but contain no actual copyrighted data in them(apart from file names, which qualifies as fair use)
 
Computer5k said:
The site only hosted .torrent files. These files are used to download (non-)copyrighted material from sources other than TPB, but contain no actual copyrighted data in them(apart from file names, which qualifies as fair use)
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Ah, I get it. I have never used torrents.
 
why people say the site wasnt ilegal? if they distributed pirate software then is ilegal right?
 
Through law, they were doing nothing wrong, just distrubuting a file that had the name of a movie.
 
<RJMC> said:
why people say the site wasnt ilegal? if they distributed pirate software then is ilegal right?
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They don't distribute anything illegal, just links to things that are illegal :)
 
Computer5k said:
They don't distribute anything illegal, just links to things that are illegal :)
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so they where contrubuiting whit it
isnt it?
 
It's analogous to giving someone detailed directions to an easily-stealable DVD movie. Sure, you told them where to find it and how to steal it, but they stole it, not you.
 

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Wikinews States this:
"There have also been rumors that this is another stunt by The Pirate Bay to promote awareness. Approximately one year ago today they claimed something similar like this, but instead were simply updating their servers[Citation needed]. At current only limited publications have been made available by proper officials, (see the MPAA link below), therefore possibilities of this being another hoax is still a possibility."
- http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_and_Piratbyrån_raided

So there is a chance!

And also if they state that they are only a tracker doesn't that just make it legal for them to have the site?
Because what so different from searching a torrent on google.com or a website that has all the link neatly organized.
 
Piratebay.org has been famous for saying '**** you' to everybody who opposed them. THey were finally stopped.

Pirates still ****ing destroy Ninja's at every turn.
 
ThePirateBay said:
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.
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It's not the end for PirateBay yet, now I might be wrong but I believe the precedent case in Sweden sided with host, so there may be hope left. The part where I bolded, seems like they're hoping to find actual warez on servers (or other illegal materials), something I doubt TPB would be stupid enough to leave on.

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Qonfused said:
Pirates <<<<< Ninjas in every instance.
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Alas, poor Pirates. You were an invaluable aid in obtaining ridiculously priced software and obscure films.

But you will be back.
 
That explains why all of my stuff stopped downloading. >.>

Hey I think I just heard the door break down. :O... OH S
 
Sometimes i feel good about moving from sweden, tired of the god damned rules and how the government do wtf they want.


FIGHT DA POWWWAAAAA!!!! *loads AK-47*
 
I dont download software/music/movies anymore =)

All stopped when my dad made me buy Visual Studio instead of using the one I had err, obtained through other means. I'm a reformed man I tell ye!

Bitorrent never worked for me anyway
 
Id buy something if it's worth the money.

Most things aren't worth the money.
 
I seriously hope they get punished for assisting copyright infrigement. Piracy is wrong.
 
HunterSeeker said:
I seriously hope they get punished for assisting copyright infrigement. Piracy is wrong.
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The "Arr, me hearties!" type of piracy isn't, though. It should be positively encouraged.
 
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