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ThePirateBay Will Rise Again?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can't-keep-a-good-torrent-down dept.

muffen writes "IDG.se has an interesting article up giving more details about the raid on PirateBay, and a little history of the organization. The news organ reports that nearly 200 servers were taken, and many of them had nothing to do with the torrent-serving group. After yesterday's raid, the site is back up with a single page explaining the situation. Brokep, one of the people behind PirateBay, claims that the site will be up and running within a couple of days. He also says that there is no legal basis for the raid against them and that he is certain that the case will not go to trial." From the site: "The necessity for securing technical evidence for the existence 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 whether it is illegal or not, the officers explained that this is normal."

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  1. PirateBay will rise again? by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    This looks like a job for Captain Copyright!

    Seriously - of course the pirate bay will rise again - what they were doing was not illegal under Swedish law.

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    1. Re:PirateBay will rise again? by stupidfoo · · Score: 4, Funny

      Because the average torrent user is an expert on Swedish law and ThePirateBay, who are a group of well respected Swedish lawyers, said so, so it must be true!

    2. Re:PirateBay will rise again? by Ithika · · Score: 4, Funny

      Maybe you should tell the people at http://www.google.se/ that directing people to copyrighted works is illegal in Sweden.

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  2. This is bad... by Quintios · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think the selling of Pirates is bad. The site should stay down!

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  3. "criminal police?" Oo by plasmacutter · · Score: 5, Funny

    from TFS: Swedish National Criminal Police

    the police are criminal?
    well at least in sweden they tell it like it is.. i guess Oo

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  4. Re:Cross Link & Clickies by wheany · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not sure how that ended up.

    The guy is still dead.

  5. MPAA Document title : by alexhs · · Score: 5, Funny

    SWEDISH AUTHORITIES SINK PIRATE BAY

    Hmm... How are you going to sink a bay ? Isn't it already full of water ?

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