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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.
That's the great thing about the world. You can do illegal things. And just because they are illegal and someone calls you out on them doesn't mean you'll be prosecuted (I'm looking in your direction NSA wiretaps)
If an officer ever threatens to taze you, say you have a pacemaker.
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You are absolutely right, this is great publicity for piracy and piracy organizations. And we can make sure that even more persons hear about this, and make people understand just how many persons there are that care about this question and want the pirate bay to stay up. Here are some e-mail and postal addresses to the Swedish police, the anti piracy bureau (a swedish lobby organization like the riaa), and some important swedish politic organizations. If you're Swedish please pick a few of these and email/post a message and tell them what you think about this. Or even if you're not, do it anyway. It can't hurt. You can make a difference! If you're worried about åäö in the postal adresses, just use aao, it will get trought. The Goverment (postal): Sveriges riksdag 100 12 Stockholm Sweden Important Politicians: Göran Persson Fredrik Reinfeldt Lars Leijonborg Göran HÃgglund Lars Ohly Maud Olofsson Peter Eriksson Maria Wetterstrand Political Organizations (postal): Socialdemokratiska partistyrelsen 105 60 Stockholm Sweden Moderaterna Box 2080 103 12 Stockholm Sweden Folkpartiet Box 6508 Drottninggatan 97 1tr 113 83 Stockholm Sweden Kristdemokraterna Box 2373 103 18 Stockholm Sweden Centerpartiet Box 2200 103 15 Stockholm Sweden Miljöpartiet de Gröna Prästgatan 18 A Box 2136 103 14 Stockholm Sweden The Anti Piracy Bureau: Postal Adress: Antipiratbyrån S:t Eriksgatan 117A Box 23021 104 35 Stockholm Sweden Swedish police (different adresses are for different districts): e-mail: polismyndigheten@blekinge.police.se polismyndigheten@dalarna.police.se polismyndigheten@gotland.police.se polismyndigheten@gavleborg.polisen.se polismyndigheten@halland.police.se polismyndigheten@jamtland.police.se polismyndigheten@jonkoping.police.se polismyndigheten@kalmar.police.se polismyndigheten@kronoberg.police.se polismyndigheten@norrbotten.police.se polismyndigheten.skane@polisen.se polismyndigheten@stockholm.polisen.se polismyndigheten.sodermanland@polisen.se post@uppsala.polisen.se polisen@varmland.police.se polismyndigheten@vasterbotten.police.se polismyndigheten@vasternorrland.police.se polismyndigheten@vastmanland.polisen.se polismyndigheten@vastragotaland.polisen.se polismyndigheten@orebro.police.se polismyndigheten@ostergotland.police.se rikspolisstyrelsen@polisen.se skl@skl.police.se postals (the first one is the national one, so if you send do several of them, always send to this): Rikspolisstyrelsen Box 12256 102 26 Stockholm Sweden SKL - Statens Kriminaltekniska Laboratorium 581 94 Linköping Sweden Polismyndigheten i Blekinge lÃn Box 315 371 25 Karlskrona Sweden Polismyndigheten Dalarna Box 739 791 29 Falun Sweden Polismyndigheten Gotland Box 1153 621 22 Visby Sweden Polismyndigheten i Gävleborgs län Box 625 801 26 Gävle Sweden Polismyndigheten i Hallands län Box 1031 301 10 Halmstad Sweden Polismyndigheten i Jämtlands län Box 707 831 28 Östersund Sweden Polismyndigheten i Jönköpings län Box 618 551 18 Jönköping Sweden Polismyndigheten i Kalmar län Box 91 391 21 Kalmar Sweden Polismyndigheten i Kronobergs län Box 1211 351 12 Växjö Sweden Polismyndigheten i Norrbotten Box 50135 973 24 Luleå Sweden Polismyndigheten i Skåne 205 90 Malmö Sweden Polismyndigheten i Stockholms län 106 75 Stockholm Sweden Polismyndigheten i Södermanlands län Box 348 631 05 Eskilstuna Sweden Polismyndigheten i Uppsala län Box 3007 750 03 Uppsala Sweden Polismyndigheten Värmland Box 157 651 05 Karlstad Sweden Polismyndigheten i Västerbottens län Box 463 901 09 Umeå Sweden Polismyndigheten i Västernorrlands län Box 720 851 21 Sundsvall Sweden Polismyndigheten i Västmanlands län Box 9 721 03 Västerås Sweden Polismyndigheten i Västra Götaland Box 429 401 26 Göteborg Sweden Polismyndigheten i Örebro län Box 1804 701 18 Örebro Sweden Polismyndigheten i Östergötlands län Box 345 581 03 Linköping Sweden
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Actually swedish uses "ö", not "ø". Danish and Norwegian use ø.
The AACS key is NOT 0xF606EEFD628B1CA427BEA93A9CA9773F
Google would be proud :) Hoax site take down, get lots of hits and ream in the ad revenue from visits when hosted again :)
Not to forget Klaus Stoertebeker, a pirate in the northern seas around Hamburg. He is still kind of a folk hero in northern Germany - it's quite hard to google useful stuff about him in German, because all you get are Stoertebeker beers, Stoertebeker pageants, Stoertebeker seaside resorts, etc.
That pirates often had support in the local communities is little surprise - (not only) given the times, their policies were often quite favorable to those of "official" armies. E.g., Stoertebeker's group was known as "Likedeeler" " - an old German word, but a hint at the meaning should be clear to English speakers. I could find only German links for the exact setup (the English wikipedia article linked above doesn't mention it), but Likedeeler means approximately "equal sharer" - all proceeds from the group's endeavours would be shared in even parts among all, including captain (and, legend has it, often also with the poor along the coasts.)
No wait, here is a short summary in English.
There is of course no shortage of legends about other robberies, exploits, and pranks, most notably Stoertebeker's death (see wikipedia.) Little is known in written history, though.
And why not? These were freedom-living people, many of whom simply preferred being a pirate to being enslaved in some king's army. I'm sure they were cruel and all, but so were the times. I'm sure they could be fun to have around, too.
Hakim Bey has written some interesting things about pirates (and also many other topics.)
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