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ThePirateBay.org Raided and Shut Down
An anonymous reader writes "ThePirateBay.org, a longtime fixture of the BitTorrent community, is currently under investigation. Slyck.com is reporting their servers have been seized by the Swedish police." What's really interesting about them is the strange political power that they held in their homeland. There was much discussion even of a political party. This will be interesting to watch unfold.
I bet it was really ninjas.
Yarr! Imagine all the booty those law enforcement agents got their hands on!
Good luck to Pirate Bay. They make really good rum drinks! *burp*
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Please let me finish freeing the flow of information, specifically Season 4 of Family Guy. Thank you.
thank god, 24 is finished !!
Why do half-measures, let's close the internet while we're at it! Most of the traffic is porn and/or pirated.
I'd take politicians funded by porn ads over the bastards taking a chunk out of my salary any day :o)
So.. it has come to this
but swedish police officers might have not liked when they were told to "sodomize themselves with retractable batons".
Now I feel guilty about ad-blocking the banners on there. . .
-CR
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What changed? Sending letters is one thing, but something pretty heavy must be going on to warrant that kind of response.
Can any of our swedish friends fill in the gaps here? I'm sure we're missing something.
It's really quite simple.
Terrorists can download .torrent files. And if terrorists can download .torrent files, then terrorists can obtain unlimited copies of material by Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson, etc.
This will (obviously) lead to a greater hatred of America, and western culture in general.
This will impact the safety of all of our children as terrorists with big boners from watching Britney in that video with the short skirt will erupt into testosterone-fueled rages ... and this will greatly impact our war on terror.
This has nothing to do with copyright law, and everything to do with the safety of the free world.
I don't understand what you don't get about it?
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Today's State of the Union address is sponsored by Vivid Porn Productions.
I might actually start watching the SOTU again if they did that...
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Sweden does not equal Switzerland last time I checked. I do believe they might export some sort of fancy meatballs though.
Only if the advertised porn sites contain a sufficient girl-on-girl selection.
Otherwise, no.
50 policemen?! Why so many? Were they trying to take down Neo?
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It's as if millions of geeks cried out at once... and were suddenly silenced.
now where am i going to buy my software!?
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No trees were killed in the creation of this post. However, many electrons were inconvenienced.
It does seem improbable that the police would make a comment to a random caller, presumably from another country. We need a 2nd person to call and confirm; report back to this thread.
Looks like slashdot is now affecting the traffic of the entire site of stats.autonomica.se.
>Problem is that terrorists are more clever than to use unencrypted information sharing, so what you're proposing is that we allow the Gov. to listen in on us while the terrorists really doesn't care.
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The vast majority of Vikings were Norwegion not Swedish. My Viking ancestors kicked your ancestors buttocks. Be nice or I'll throw lutefisk at you.
I am Swedish, I worry a lot about the IP land grab going on
IPv6 will sort that out
No they just target 13 year olds and people without computers.
The phrase "more better" is acceptable English. suck it grammar Nazis
Terrorists can download .torrent files. And if terrorists can download .torrent files, then terrorists can obtain unlimited copies of material by Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson, etc.
This will (obviously) lead to a greater hatred of America, and western culture in general.
Not to mention that these terrorists could then walk into a bank, air port, mall, etc. and PLAY BACK THOSE FILES. I think that's the more pressing danger here.
Considering that until recently Armenian industry was pretty much completely controlled from Russia, I don't see that you Armenians have much to boast about.
I work for Diebold,
We are allowed to vote more than once for the Presidential election.
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Terrorists can download .torrent files. And if terrorists can download .torrent files, then terrorists can obtain unlimited copies of material by Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson, etc.
This will (obviously) lead to a greater hatred of America, and western culture in general.
Following this logic (terrorists acquire torrents of mass-produced crap which leads to greater hatred of the West) -- I side with the terrorists in their hatred.
(Note to NSA - not with the blowing up of things, just with the hatred.)
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At least they waited until after all the season finales before raiding.
Just call losing the "smug smile" a down payment on the "shit eating grin" they'll have when they get back up and running.
>The pirate party and thepiratebay are not affiliated in any way. They are to different movements.
Don't you mean... Vey are different movements. ?
True, but two parties is still kind of confusing. Why not cut it down to one? MUCH simpler! The citizens won't be nearly as confused at elections.
Were they trying to take down Neo?
No, I'm fine.
Neo? your about 4624 too late
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